Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got his Spots, part 1 (the game goes into the forest), sentence 3

Back on the empty veldt the hungry Leopard and the hunter eat rats and beetles, get a terrible tummy-ache, and ask the wise Baboon, Baviaan, where all the animals have gone; he only winks and gives them riddles about "spots" and "change".

Who acts: hungry Leopard, animals, Leopard · What happens: eat, get, ask, go, wink, give · To what, where: rats, empty veldt, terrible tummy ache, wise Baboon, riddles, animals

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 (hungry Leopard, animals, Leopard), 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	Back	back	ADV	_	12 eat	advmod
2	on	on	ADP	_	5 veldt	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 veldt	det
4	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 veldt	amod
5	veldt	veldt	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 eat	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Leopard	det
7	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Leopard	amod
8	Leopard	leopard	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 eat	nsubj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 hunter	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hunter	det
11	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Leopard	conj
12	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 eat	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 beetles	cc
15	beetles	beetle	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 rats	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 get	punct
17	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 eat	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 ache	det
19	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 ache	amod
20	tummy	tummy	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ache	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 tummy	punct
22	ache	ache	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 get	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 ask	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 ask	cc
25	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 eat	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Baboon	det
27	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Baboon	amod
28	Baboon	baboon	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 ask	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Baviaan	punct
30	Baviaan	Baviaan	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Baboon	appos
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 gone	punct
32	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	37 gone	advmod
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 animals	det:predet
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 animals	det
35	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 gone	nsubj
36	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 gone	aux
37	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 Baviaan	acl:relcl
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 winks	punct
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 winks	nsubj
40	only	only	ADV	_	41 winks	advmod
41	winks	wink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 eat	parataxis
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 gives	cc
43	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 winks	conj
44	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 gives	iobj
45	riddles	riddle	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 gives	obj
46	about	about	ADP	_	48 spots	case
47	"	"	PUNCT	_	48 spots	punct
48	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 riddles	nmod
49	"	"	PUNCT	_	48 spots	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 change	cc
51	"	"	PUNCT	_	52 change	punct
52	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 spots	conj
53	"	"	PUNCT	_	52 change	punct
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 eat	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	eat	present	the hungry Leopard and the hunter	rats and beetles		the empty veldt		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Patient
2	get	infinitive	the hungry Leopard and the hunter not said here	a terrible tummy ache				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ache=Stimulus
3	ask speech: ask	infinitive	the hungry Leopard and the hunter not said here		the wise Baboon			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent baboon=Recipient
4	go	present · perfect	all animals					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	wink	present	Leopard					vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	give	present	Leopard not said here	riddles	animals = animal		about spots and change	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient riddle=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:3.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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