Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got his Spots, part 2 (One, two, three, and where's your breakfast?), sentence 8
The Giraffe was "covered all over with chestnut blotches" and the Zebra "covered all over with black and purple stripes"; "fulvous" and "tawny" are old words for a golden yellow-brown.
Who acts: Zebra · What happens: cover, be · To what, where: Giraffe, old words
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), 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 Giraffe | det |
| 2 | Giraffe | giraffe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 covered | aux:pass |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 covered | punct |
| 5 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 over | advmod |
| 7 | over | over | ADV | _ | 5 covered | advmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 blotches | case |
| 9 | chestnut | chestnut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 blotches | compound |
| 10 | blotches | blotch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 covered | obl |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 covered | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 covered | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Zebra | det |
| 14 | Zebra | zebra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 covered | nsubj |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 covered | punct |
| 16 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 covered | conj |
| 17 | all | all | ADV | _ | 18 over | advmod |
| 18 | over | over | ADV | _ | 16 covered | advmod |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 stripes | case |
| 20 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 stripes | amod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 purple | cc |
| 22 | purple | purple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 black | conj |
| 23 | stripes | stripe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 covered | obl |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 fulvous | punct |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 fulvous | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 fulvous | punct |
| 27 | fulvous | fulvous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 stripes | parataxis |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 fulvous | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 words | cc |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 tawny | punct |
| 31 | tawny | tawny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fulvous | conj |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 tawny | punct |
| 33 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 words | cop |
| 34 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 words | amod |
| 35 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 covered | conj |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 brown | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 brown | det |
| 38 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 brown | amod |
| 39 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 brown | amod |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 yellow | punct |
| 41 | brown | brown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 words | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover in a quote | past · passive | the Giraffe | with chestnut blotches; over property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with blotch=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cover in a quote | past | the Zebra | with black stripes; over property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with stripe=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | old words | for a golden yellow brown | 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:8.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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