Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 86

So he changed his skin then and there, and the Leopard was more excited than ever; he had never seen a man change his skin before.

Who acts: Ethiopian, Leopard, man · What happens: change, be, not see · To what, where: skin, man

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 (Ethiopian, Leopard, man), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 changed	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 changed	nsubj
3	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 skin	nmod:poss
5	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 changed	obj
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 changed	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 there	cc
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 then	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 excited	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 excited	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Leopard	det
12	Leopard	Leopard	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 excited	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 excited	cop
14	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 excited	advmod
15	excited	excited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 changed	conj
16	than	than	ADP	_	17 ever	case
17	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	15 excited	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 seen	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 seen	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 seen	aux
21	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	22 seen	advmod
22	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 changed	parataxis
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 man	det
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 seen	obj
25	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 seen	xcomp
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 skin	nmod:poss
27	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 change	obj
28	before	before	ADV	_	25 change	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 changed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	change	past	Ethiopian	Ethiopian's skin	then		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient
2	is	past	the Leopard			excited property	tree rules
3	not see	past · perfect	Ethiopian	a man			tree rules
4	change	infinitive	a man not said here	Ethiopian's skin		before property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient

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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