Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got his Spots, part 1 (the game goes into the forest), sentence 11

There "the Giraffe grew blotchy, and the Zebra grew stripy, and the Eland and the Koodoo grew darker, with little wavy grey lines on their backs like bark on a tree trunk".

Who acts: Giraffe, Zebra, Eland · What happens: grow

This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got his Spots, part 1 (the game goes into the forest)» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Giraffe, Zebra, Eland), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 grew	expl
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 grew	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Giraffe	det
4	Giraffe	giraffe	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 grew	nsubj
5	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	blotchy	blotchy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 grew	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 grew	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 grew	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Zebra	det
10	Zebra	Zebra	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 grew	nsubj
11	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 grew	conj
12	stripy	stripy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 grew	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 grew	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 grew	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Eland	det
16	Eland	Eland	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 grew	nsubj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 Koodoo	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Koodoo	det
19	Koodoo	koodoo	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Eland	conj
20	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 grew	conj
21	darker	dark	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 grew	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 lines	punct
23	with	with	ADP	_	27 lines	case
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 lines	amod
25	wavy	wavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 lines	amod
26	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 lines	amod
27	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 grew	obl
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 backs	case
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 backs	nmod:poss
30	backs	back	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 lines	nmod
31	like	like	ADP	_	32 bark	case
32	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 backs	nmod
33	on	on	ADP	_	36 trunk	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 trunk	det
35	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 trunk	compound
36	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bark	nmod
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 grew	punct
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 grew	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	grow in a quote	past	the Giraffe	there	blotchy property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow in a quote	past	the Zebra		stripy property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	grow in a quote	past	the Eland and the Koodoo		with little wavy grey lines on Giraffe's backs like bark on a tree trunk; dark property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:books:077-justso-leopard-spots-1.lesson:11.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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