Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got his Spots, part 1 (the game goes into the forest), sentence 2

After a long time standing half in shade and half in sun, the Giraffe grew blotchy, the Zebra grew stripy, and the antelopes grew darker, so you could hear them and smell them but hardly ever see them.

Who acts: long time, Giraffe, Zebra, antelopes, you · What happens: stand, grow, hear, smell, see · To what, where: half, shade, Giraffe

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 (long time, Giraffe, Zebra, antelopes), 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	After	after	ADP	_	4 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 grew	obl
5	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 time	acl
6	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	5 standing	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 shade	case
8	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 standing	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 half	cc
10	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	6 half	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 sun	case
12	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 standing	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 time	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Giraffe	det
15	Giraffe	giraffe	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 grew	nsubj
16	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	blotchy	blotchy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 grew	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 grew	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Zebra	det
20	Zebra	zebra	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 grew	nsubj
21	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 grew	conj
22	stripy	stripy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 grew	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 grew	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 grew	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 antelopes	det
26	antelopes	antelope	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 grew	nsubj
27	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 grew	conj
28	darker	dark	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 grew	xcomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 hear	punct
30	so	so	ADV	_	33 hear	advmod
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 hear	nsubj
32	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 hear	aux
33	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 grew	advcl
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 hear	obj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 smell	cc
36	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 hear	conj
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 smell	obj
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 see	cc
39	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	41 see	advmod
40	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	41 see	advmod
41	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 hear	conj
42	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 see	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 grew	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	gerund	a long time not said here	half and half	shade		in sun	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent half=Theme in shade=Destination
2	grow	past	the Giraffe			time	blotchy property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	grow	past	the Zebra				stripy property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	grow	past	the antelopes				dark property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	hear	could	you	Giraffe				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
6	smell	infinitive	you not said here	Giraffe				vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
7	see	infinitive	you not said here	Giraffe		ever	hardly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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:2.

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, R8-pos-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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