Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 85
It will be the very thing for hiding in hollows and behind trees.’
Who acts: purple · What happens: be, hide · To what, where: thing, hollows
This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Leopard Got His Spots. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (purple), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 thing | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 thing | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 thing | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 thing | det |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 thing | advmod |
| 6 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 hiding | mark |
| 8 | hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 thing | advcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 hollows | case |
| 10 | hollows | hollow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hiding | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 trees | cc |
| 12 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 13 trees | case |
| 13 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hollows | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 thing | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | future | purple | the thing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hide | gerund | purple not said here | hollows and trees | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hollow=Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 2781 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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