Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got his Spots, part 2 (One, two, three, and where's your breakfast?), sentence 18
"Now you are a beauty!": on bare ground the Leopard can "look like a heap of pebbles", on naked rocks "a piece of pudding-stone" (a rock full of round pebbles), on a leafy branch "sunshine sifting through the leaves", and right across the middle of a path "nothing in particular.
Who acts: you, Leopard, branch sunshine · What happens: be, look, sift · To what, where: beauty, piece, bare ground, leaves
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 (you, Leopard, branch sunshine), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 beauty | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 beauty | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 beauty | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 beauty | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 beauty | det |
| 6 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 beauty | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 beauty | punct |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 beauty | punct |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 ground | case |
| 11 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ground | amod |
| 12 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 look | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Leopard | det |
| 14 | Leopard | leopard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 look | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 look | aux |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 look | punct |
| 17 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 beauty | parataxis |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 heap | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 heap | det |
| 20 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 look | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 pebbles | case |
| 22 | pebbles | pebble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 heap | nmod |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 heap | punct |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 rocks | punct |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 rocks | case |
| 26 | naked | naked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 rocks | amod |
| 27 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 heap | conj |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 piece | punct |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 piece | det |
| 30 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 look | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 stone | case |
| 32 | pudding | pudding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 stone | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 pudding | punct |
| 34 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 piece | nmod |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 stone | punct |
| 36 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 38 rock | punct |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 rock | det |
| 38 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 piece | appos |
| 39 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 rock | amod |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 pebbles | case |
| 41 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 pebbles | amod |
| 42 | pebbles | pebble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 full | obl |
| 43 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 38 rock | punct |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 branch | punct |
| 45 | on | on | ADP | _ | 48 branch | case |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 branch | det |
| 47 | leafy | leafy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 branch | amod |
| 48 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 sunshine | compound |
| 49 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 48 branch | punct |
| 50 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 look | parataxis |
| 51 | sifting | sift | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 50 sunshine | acl |
| 52 | through | through | ADP | _ | 54 leaves | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 leaves | det |
| 54 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 sifting | obl |
| 55 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 54 leaves | punct |
| 56 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 61 middle | punct |
| 57 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 61 middle | cc |
| 58 | right | right | ADV | _ | 61 middle | advmod |
| 59 | across | across | ADP | _ | 61 middle | case |
| 60 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 61 middle | det |
| 61 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 sunshine | appos |
| 62 | of | of | ADP | _ | 66 nothing | case |
| 63 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 64 path | det |
| 64 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 61 middle | nmod |
| 65 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 66 nothing | punct |
| 66 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 61 middle | nmod |
| 67 | in | in | ADP | _ | 68 particular | case |
| 68 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 66 nothing | nmod |
| 69 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 beauty | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | you | a beauty | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | look in a quote | can | the Leopard | a piece of pudding stone | bare ground | like a heap of pebbles and naked rocks | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme piece=Attribute | ||
| 3 | sift in a quote | gerund | branch sunshine not said here | the leaves | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through leaf=Location |
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:18.
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 ×2, R6-punct-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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