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title: It will be the very thing for hiding in hollows and behind trees.’ — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: It will be the very thing for hiding in hollows and behind trees.’ Who acts: purple. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Leopard Got His Spots, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 85

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It will be the very thing for hiding in hollows and behind trees.’

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**Who acts:** purple · **What happens:** be, hide · **To what, where:** thing, hollows

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2781:5:85
# text = It will be the very thing for hiding in hollows and behind trees.’
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	hollows	hollow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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.

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**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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