Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got his Spots, part 2 (One, two, three, and where's your breakfast?), sentence 11
The Zebra went to "little thorn-bushes where the sunlight fell all stripy", the Giraffe to "tallish trees where the shadows fell all blotchy", and they said "One--two--three!
Who acts: Zebra, sunlight, shadows · What happens: go, fall, say · To what, where: little thorn bushes · 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, sunlight, shadows), 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 | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 bushes | case |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 bushes | punct |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bushes | amod |
| 7 | thorn | thorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bushes | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 thorn | punct |
| 9 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | obl |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 fell | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sunlight | det |
| 12 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fell | nsubj |
| 13 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 bushes | acl:relcl |
| 14 | all | all | ADV | _ | 15 stripy | advmod |
| 15 | stripy | stripy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fell | xcomp |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 stripy | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Giraffe | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Giraffe | det |
| 19 | Giraffe | giraffe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bushes | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 trees | case |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 trees | punct |
| 22 | tallish | tallish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 trees | amod |
| 23 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 bushes | conj |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 27 fell | advmod |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 shadows | det |
| 26 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 fell | nsubj |
| 27 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 trees | acl:relcl |
| 28 | all | all | ADV | _ | 29 blotchy | advmod |
| 29 | blotchy | blotchy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 fell | xcomp |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 blotchy | punct |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 said | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 said | cc |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 said | nsubj |
| 34 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 three | punct |
| 36 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 40 three | nsubj |
| 37 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 38 two | punct |
| 38 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 One | conj |
| 39 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 40 three | punct |
| 40 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 said | ccomp |
| 41 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the Zebra | little thorn bushes and the Giraffe and tallish trees | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bush=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | fall in a quote | past | the sunlight | stripy property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fall in a quote | past | the shadows | blotchy property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | shadows = shadow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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:11.
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): R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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