Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got his Spots, part 1 (the game goes into the forest), sentence 17

The Leopard remembers that "Giraffe is about seventeen feet high" and Zebra "about four and a half feet high" (he knows the Zebra's size well, because he used to hunt him and crunch his marrow-bones); "Fiddle!" is an old word for "Nonsense!".

Who acts: Leopard, Giraffe, Fiddle · What happens: remember, be, know, use, hunt, crunch · To what, where: size, Leopard, marrow bones, old word · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Leopard, Giraffe, Fiddle), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Leopard	det
2	Leopard	leopard	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 remembers	nsubj
3	remembers	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 high	mark
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Giraffe	punct
6	Giraffe	giraffe	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 high	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 high	cop
8	about	about	ADV	_	9 seventeen	advmod
9	seventeen	seventeen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 feet	nummod
10	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 high	obl:unmarked
11	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 remembers	ccomp
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 high	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 Zebra	cc
14	Zebra	Zebra	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Giraffe	conj
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 Zebra	punct
16	about	about	ADV	_	17 four	advmod
17	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 high	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 feet	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 half	det
20	half	half	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	21 feet	amod
21	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 four	nmod
22	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 feet	amod
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 high	punct
24	(	(	PUNCT	_	26 knows	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 knows	nsubj
26	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 remembers	parataxis
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Zebra	det
28	Zebra	Zebra	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 size	nmod:poss
29	's	's	PART	_	28 Zebra	case
30	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 knows	obj
31	well	well	ADV	_	26 knows	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 used	punct
33	because	because	SCONJ	_	35 used	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 used	nsubj
35	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 knows	advcl
36	to	to	PART	_	37 hunt	mark
37	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 used	xcomp
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 hunt	obj
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 crunch	cc
40	crunch	crunch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 hunt	conj
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 bones	nmod:poss
42	marrow	marrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 bones	compound
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	42 marrow	punct
44	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 crunch	obj
45	)	)	PUNCT	_	26 knows	punct
46	;	;	PUNCT	_	54 word	punct
47	"	"	PUNCT	_	48 Fiddle	punct
48	Fiddle	Fiddle	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 word	nsubj
49	!	!	PUNCT	_	48 Fiddle	punct
50	"	"	PUNCT	_	48 Fiddle	punct
51	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	54 word	cop
52	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 word	det
53	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 word	amod
54	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 remembers	parataxis
55	for	for	ADP	_	57 Nonsense	case
56	"	"	PUNCT	_	57 Nonsense	punct
57	Nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 word	nmod
58	!	!	PUNCT	_	57 Nonsense	punct
59	"	"	PUNCT	_	57 Nonsense	punct
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 remembers	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	remember	present	the Leopard			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	Giraffe and Zebra		seventeen feet obl:unmarked; four half feet obl; high property	tree rules
3	know	present	Leopard	the Zebra's size	well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer size=Stimulus
4	use	past	Leopard			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	hunt	to-infinitive	Leopard not said here	Leopard		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	crunch	infinitive	Leopard not said here	Leopard's marrow bones		vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient
7	is a	present	Fiddle	a old word	for Nonsense	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.

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:17.

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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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