Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 92
I went into this spot with you, and a lot of good it has done me.’
Who acts: I · What happens: go, do · To what, where: spot, lot, me
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 spot | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 spot | det |
| 5 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 done | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 done | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 lot | det |
| 11 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 done | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 good | case |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lot | nmod |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 done | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 done | aux |
| 16 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 went | parataxis |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 done | iobj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | I | this spot | with you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into spot=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | do | present · perfect · passive | a lot of good | me | tree rules |
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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