Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got his Spots, part 2 (One, two, three, and where's your breakfast?), sentence 16
The Leopard did not want stripes ("I wouldn't look like Zebra--not for ever so") nor spots too "vulgar-big" ("I wouldn't look like Giraffe"); "not for ever so" = not for anything.
Who acts: Leopard, hunter · What happens: not want, not look · To what, where: stripes
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 (Leopard, hunter), 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 Leopard | det |
| 2 | Leopard | leopard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 want | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 want | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 want | advmod |
| 5 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | stripes | stripe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 want | obj |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 look | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 look | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 look | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 look | aux |
| 11 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 look | advmod |
| 12 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 want | conj |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 Zebra | case |
| 14 | Zebra | Zebra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 look | obl |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 so | punct |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 so | advmod |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 so | case |
| 18 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 19 so | advmod |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 look | conj |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 look | punct |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 look | punct |
| 22 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 23 spots | cc |
| 23 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 look | conj |
| 24 | too | too | ADV | _ | 12 look | advmod |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 big | punct |
| 26 | vulgar | vulgar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 big | amod |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 vulgar | punct |
| 28 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 look | conj |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 big | punct |
| 30 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 35 look | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 look | punct |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 look | nsubj |
| 33 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 look | aux |
| 34 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 look | advmod |
| 35 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 big | parataxis |
| 36 | like | like | ADP | _ | 37 Giraffe | case |
| 37 | Giraffe | giraffe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 look | obl |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 look | punct |
| 39 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 35 look | punct |
| 40 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 50 anything | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 45 so | punct |
| 42 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 45 so | advmod |
| 43 | for | for | ADP | _ | 45 so | case |
| 44 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 45 so | advmod |
| 45 | so | so | ADV | _ | 50 anything | advmod |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 45 so | punct |
| 47 | = | = | SYM | _ | 50 anything | punct |
| 48 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 50 anything | advmod |
| 49 | for | for | ADP | _ | 50 anything | case |
| 50 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 look | parataxis |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 want | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not want | past · do-support | the Leopard | stripes | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot stripe=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not look in a quote | would | the hunter = hunter | like Zebra | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not look in a quote | would | the hunter = hunter | like Giraffe | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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:078-justso-leopard-spots-2.lesson:16.
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 ×4, 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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