Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got his Spots, part 2 (One, two, three, and where's your breakfast?), sentence 7

At "bright morning-time" the Leopard asked, "What have you at your end of the table, Brother?", joking that their catches were their breakfast.

Who acts: Leopard, you, catches · What happens: ask, have, joke, be · To what, where: end, breakfast · 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, you, catches), 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	At	at	ADP	_	6 time	case
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 time	punct
3	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	amod
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 time	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 morning	punct
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 asked	obl
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 time	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Leopard	det
9	Leopard	leopard	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 asked	nsubj
10	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 have	obj
14	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 asked	ccomp
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 have	nsubj
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 end	case
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 end	nmod:poss
18	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 table	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 table	det
21	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 end	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Brother	punct
23	Brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 table	conj
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 joking	punct
27	joking	joke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 asked	advcl
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 breakfast	mark
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 catches	nmod:poss
30	catches	catch	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 breakfast	nsubj
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 breakfast	cop
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 breakfast	nmod:poss
33	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 joking	ccomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 asked	punct

Pragmatics

form: wh-question
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	the Leopard		time	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have in a quote	present	you		at your end of the table and Brother	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient
3	joke speech: other	gerund	the Leopard not said here			vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	Leopard's catches	Leopard's breakfast		tree rules

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:7.

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): 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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