Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got his Spots, part 2 (One, two, three, and where's your breakfast?), sentence 5

The Leopard grumbled, "This daylight hunting is a perfect scandal", so they "waited till dark", and the Leopard jumped at something that "smelt like Zebra, and it felt like Zebra, and when he knocked it down it kicked like Zebra, but he couldn't see it".

Who acts: Leopard, daylight hunting, hunting, Zebra · What happens: grumble, be, wait, jump, smelt, feel · To what, where: perfect scandal, something, hunting · 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 (Leopard, daylight hunting, hunting, Zebra), 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	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 grumbled	nsubj
3	grumbled	grumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 waited	parataxis
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 scandal	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 scandal	punct
6	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 hunting	det
7	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hunting	compound
8	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 scandal	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 scandal	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 scandal	det
11	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 scandal	amod
12	scandal	scandal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grumbled	ccomp
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 scandal	punct
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 waited	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	18 waited	advmod
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 waited	nsubj
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 waited	punct
18	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	till	till	ADP	_	20 dark	case
20	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 waited	obl
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 waited	punct
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 jumped	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 jumped	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Leopard	det
25	Leopard	leopard	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 jumped	nsubj
26	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 waited	conj
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 something	case
28	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	26 jumped	obl
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 smelt	nsubj
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 smelt	punct
31	smelt	smelt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 something	acl:relcl
32	like	like	ADP	_	33 Zebra	case
33	Zebra	Zebra	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 smelt	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 felt	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 felt	cc
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 felt	nsubj
37	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 smelt	conj
38	like	like	ADP	_	39 Zebra	case
39	Zebra	Zebra	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 felt	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 kicked	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 kicked	cc
42	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	44 knocked	advmod
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 knocked	nsubj
44	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 kicked	advcl
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 knocked	obj
46	down	down	ADP	_	44 knocked	compound:prt
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 kicked	nsubj
48	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 waited	conj
49	like	like	ADP	_	50 Zebra	case
50	Zebra	Zebra	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 kicked	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 see	punct
52	but	but	CCONJ	_	56 see	cc
53	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 see	nsubj
54	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 see	aux
55	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	56 see	advmod
56	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 kicked	conj
57	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 see	obj
58	"	"	PUNCT	_	56 see	punct
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grumbled	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grumble speech: other	past	the Leopard					vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	this daylight hunting	a perfect scandal				tree rules
3	wait in a quote	past	Leopard			till dark		tree rules
4	jump	past	the Leopard		something			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at something=Trajectory
5	smelt in a quote	past					like Zebra	tree rules
6	feel in a quote	past	hunting				like Zebra	vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like zebra=Theme
7	knock down in a quote	past	Zebra	hunting				vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient
8	kick in a quote	past	hunting				like Zebra	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
9	not see in a quote	could	Zebra	hunting				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=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:5.

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 ×4. 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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