Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 97
‘Or if you prefer stripes, think of Zebra.
Who acts: you · What happens: prefer, think · To what, where: stripes
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 (you), 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 | _ | 5 prefer | punct |
| 2 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 prefer | cc |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 prefer | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 prefer | nsubj |
| 5 | prefer | prefer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | stripes | stripe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 prefer | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 think | punct |
| 8 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 prefer | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Zebra | case |
| 10 | Zebra | Zebra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 think | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 prefer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prefer | present | you | stripes | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stripe=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | infinitive | you not said here | of Zebra | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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