Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 64
They let the Zebra and the Giraffe get up; and Zebra moved away to some little thorn-bushes where the sunlight fell all stripy, and Giraffe moved off to some tallish trees where the shadows fell all blotchy.
Who acts: miles, Zebra, sunlight, Giraffe, shadows · What happens: let, get up, move away, fall, move off · To what, where: Zebra, little thorn bushes, tallish trees
This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Leopard Got His Spots. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (miles, Zebra, sunlight, Giraffe), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 let | nsubj |
| 2 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Zebra | det |
| 4 | Zebra | Zebra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 let | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Giraffe | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Giraffe | det |
| 7 | Giraffe | Giraffe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Zebra | conj |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 let | xcomp |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 get | compound:prt |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 moved | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 moved | cc |
| 12 | Zebra | Zebra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 moved | nsubj |
| 13 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 let | parataxis |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 moved | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 bushes | case |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 bushes | det |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 bushes | amod |
| 18 | thorn | thorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bushes | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 thorn | punct |
| 20 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 moved | obl |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 fell | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sunlight | det |
| 23 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fell | nsubj |
| 24 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 bushes | acl:relcl |
| 25 | all | all | ADV | _ | 26 stripy | advmod |
| 26 | stripy | stripy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 fell | xcomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 moved | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 moved | cc |
| 29 | Giraffe | Giraffe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 moved | nsubj |
| 30 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 moved | conj |
| 31 | off | off | ADP | _ | 30 moved | compound:prt |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 trees | case |
| 33 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 35 trees | det |
| 34 | tallish | tallish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 trees | amod |
| 35 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 moved | obl |
| 36 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 39 fell | advmod |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 shadows | det |
| 38 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 fell | nsubj |
| 39 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 trees | acl:relcl |
| 40 | all | all | ADV | _ | 41 blotchy | advmod |
| 41 | blotchy | blotchy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 fell | xcomp |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | past | miles = mile | the Zebra and the Giraffe | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get up | infinitive | the Zebra and the Giraffe not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | move away | past | Zebra | some little thorn bushes | away property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to bush=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | fall | past | the sunlight | stripy property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | move off | past | Giraffe | some tallish trees | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to tree=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | fall | past | the shadows | blotchy property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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.
Text: «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 2781 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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