Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 87

‘But what about me?’ he said, when the Ethiopian had worked his last little finger into his fine new black skin.

Who acts: Ethiopian · What happens: say, work · To what, where: last little finger, fine new black skin · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 what	cc
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 said	obj
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 me	case
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 what	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 worked	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 worked	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Ethiopian	det
13	Ethiopian	Ethiopian	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 worked	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 worked	aux
15	worked	work	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 said	ccomp
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 finger	nmod:poss
17	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 finger	amod
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 finger	amod
19	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 worked	obj
20	into	into	ADP	_	25 skin	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 skin	nmod:poss
22	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 skin	amod
23	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 skin	amod
24	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 skin	amod
25	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 worked	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Ethiopian						tree rules
2	work	past · perfect	the Ethiopian	Ethiopian's last little finger		Ethiopian's fine new black skin			vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent finger=Material into skin=Product

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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