Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got his Spots, part 1 (the game goes into the forest), sentence 18

The hunter says the animals should "show up in this dark place like ripe bananas in a smokehouse", that is, bright yellow things in a dark room.

Who acts: hunter, animals · What happens: say, show up · To what, where: dark place · 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 (hunter, animals), 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 hunter	det
2	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 animals	det
5	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 show	nsubj
6	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 show	aux
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 show	punct
8	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 show	compound:prt
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 place	case
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 place	det
12	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 place	amod
13	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 show	obl
14	like	like	ADP	_	16 bananas	case
15	ripe	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bananas	amod
16	bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 place	nmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 smokehouse	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 smokehouse	det
19	smokehouse	smokehouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bananas	nmod
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 show	punct
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 things	punct
22	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 things	discourse
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 that	fixed
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 that	punct
25	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 things	amod
26	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 things	amod
27	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 show	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 room	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 room	det
30	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 room	amod
31	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 things	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the hunter						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	show up in a quote	should	the animals			this dark place like ripe bananas in a smokehouse			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location

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:18.

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. 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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