Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got his Spots, part 2 (One, two, three, and where's your breakfast?), sentence 1
The Zebra and the Giraffe show off their trick: they step into the striped and blotchy shadows, count "One--two--three!", and vanish, laughing "where's your breakfast?"
Who acts: Zebra, Giraffe, breakfast · What happens: show off, step, count, vanish, laugh, be · To what, where: trick, striped shadows, One · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got his Spots, part 2 (One, two, three, and where's your breakfast?)» 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 (Zebra, Giraffe, breakfast), 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 Zebra | det |
| 2 | Zebra | Zebra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 show | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Giraffe | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Giraffe | det |
| 5 | Giraffe | giraffe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Zebra | conj |
| 6 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 show | compound:prt |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 trick | nmod:poss |
| 9 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 show | obj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 step | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 step | nsubj |
| 12 | step | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 show | parataxis |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 shadows | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 shadows | det |
| 15 | striped | stripe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 shadows | amod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 blotchy | cc |
| 17 | blotchy | blotchy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 striped | conj |
| 18 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 step | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 count | punct |
| 20 | count | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 step | conj |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 One | punct |
| 22 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 count | obj |
| 23 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 24 two | punct |
| 24 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 three | compound |
| 25 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 26 three | punct |
| 26 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 One | conj |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Zebra | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Zebra | punct |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 vanish | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 vanish | cc |
| 31 | vanish | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 show | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 laughing | punct |
| 33 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 vanish | advcl |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 where | punct |
| 35 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 33 laughing | ccomp |
| 36 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 where | cop |
| 37 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 breakfast | nmod:poss |
| 38 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 where | nsubj |
| 39 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Zebra | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Zebra | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show off | present | the Zebra and the Giraffe | Giraffe's trick | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent trick=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | step | present | Giraffe | the striped shadows | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into shadow=Destination | ||||
| 3 | count | present | Giraffe not said here | One | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 4 | vanish | present | the Zebra and the Giraffe not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | laugh | gerund | the Zebra and the Giraffe not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | your breakfast | where property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | trick | Giraffe | nom trick «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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:078-justso-leopard-spots-2.lesson:1.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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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