Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 9

They scuttled for days and days and days till they came to a great forest, ‘sclusively full of trees and bushes and stripy, speckly, patchy-blatchy shadows, and there they hid: and after another long time, what with standing half in the shade and half out of it, and what with the slippery-slidy shadows of the trees falling on them, the Giraffe grew blotchy, and the Zebra grew stripy, and the Eland and the Koodoo grew darker, with little wavy grey lines on their backs like bark on a tree trunk; and so, though you could hear them and smell them, you could very seldom see them, and then only when you knew precisely where to look.

Who acts: Giraffe, trees, Zebra, Eland, you · What happens: scuttle, come, hide, stand, fall, grow · To what, where: great forest, half, shade, Giraffe, 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 (Giraffe, trees, Zebra, Eland), 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 scuttled	nsubj
2	scuttled	scuttle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 days	case
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 scuttled	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 days	cc
6	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 days	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 days	cc
8	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 days	conj
9	till	till	SCONJ	_	11 came	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 scuttled	advcl
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 forest	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 forest	det
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 forest	amod
15	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 full	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 full	punct
18	sclusively	sclusively	ADV	_	19 full	advmod
19	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 came	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 trees	case
21	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 full	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 bushes	cc
23	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 trees	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 shadows	cc
25	stripy	stripy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 shadows	amod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 speckly	punct
27	speckly	speckly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 stripy	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 stripy	punct
29	patchy	patchy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 blatchy	amod
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 patchy	punct
31	blatchy	blatchy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 shadows	amod
32	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 trees	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 hid	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 hid	cc
35	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	37 hid	expl
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 hid	nsubj
37	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 scuttled	conj
38	:	:	PUNCT	_	75 grew	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	75 grew	cc
40	after	after	ADP	_	43 time	case
41	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	43 time	det
42	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 time	amod
43	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	75 grew	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 what	punct
45	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 time	conj
46	with	with	SCONJ	_	47 standing	mark
47	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	45 what	advcl
48	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	47 standing	obj
49	in	in	ADP	_	51 shade	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 shade	det
51	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 standing	obl
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 half	cc
53	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	51 shade	conj
54	out	out	ADP	_	56 it	case
55	of	of	ADP	_	56 it	case
56	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 half	nmod
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 what	punct
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 what	cc
59	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 what	conj
60	with	with	ADP	_	65 shadows	case
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 shadows	det
62	slippery	slippery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 shadows	amod
63	-	-	PUNCT	_	62 slippery	punct
64	slidy	slidy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 shadows	amod
65	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 what	nmod
66	of	of	ADP	_	68 trees	case
67	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	68 trees	det
68	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	65 shadows	nmod
69	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	68 trees	acl
70	on	on	ADP	_	71 them	case
71	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	69 falling	obl
72	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 time	punct
73	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	74 Giraffe	det
74	Giraffe	Giraffe	PROPN	Number=Sing	75 grew	nsubj
75	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 scuttled	parataxis
76	blotchy	blotchy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	75 grew	xcomp
77	,	,	PUNCT	_	81 grew	punct
78	and	and	CCONJ	_	81 grew	cc
79	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	80 Zebra	det
80	Zebra	Zebra	PROPN	Number=Sing	81 grew	nsubj
81	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	75 grew	conj
82	stripy	stripy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	81 grew	xcomp
83	,	,	PUNCT	_	90 grew	punct
84	and	and	CCONJ	_	90 grew	cc
85	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	86 Eland	det
86	Eland	Eland	PROPN	Number=Sing	90 grew	nsubj
87	and	and	CCONJ	_	89 Koodoo	cc
88	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	89 Koodoo	det
89	Koodoo	Koodoo	PROPN	Number=Sing	86 Eland	conj
90	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	75 grew	conj
91	darker	dark	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	90 grew	xcomp
92	,	,	PUNCT	_	97 lines	punct
93	with	with	ADP	_	97 lines	case
94	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	97 lines	amod
95	wavy	wavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	97 lines	amod
96	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	97 lines	amod
97	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	90 grew	obl
98	on	on	ADP	_	100 backs	case
99	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	100 backs	nmod:poss
100	backs	back	NOUN	Number=Plur	97 lines	nmod
101	like	like	ADP	_	102 bark	case
102	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	100 backs	nmod
103	on	on	ADP	_	106 trunk	case
104	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	106 trunk	det
105	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	106 trunk	compound
106	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	102 bark	nmod
107	;	;	PUNCT	_	109 so	punct
108	and	and	CCONJ	_	109 so	cc
109	so	so	ADV	_	114 hear	advmod
110	,	,	PUNCT	_	114 hear	punct
111	though	though	SCONJ	_	114 hear	mark
112	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	114 hear	nsubj
113	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	114 hear	aux
114	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 scuttled	advcl
115	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	114 hear	obj
116	and	and	CCONJ	_	117 smell	cc
117	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	114 hear	conj
118	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	117 smell	obj
119	,	,	PUNCT	_	124 see	punct
120	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	124 see	nsubj
121	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	124 see	aux
122	very	very	ADV	_	123 seldom	advmod
123	seldom	seldom	ADV	_	124 see	advmod
124	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	114 hear	conj
125	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	124 see	obj
126	,	,	PUNCT	_	132 knew	punct
127	and	and	CCONJ	_	132 knew	cc
128	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	132 knew	advmod
129	only	only	ADV	_	132 knew	advmod
130	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	132 knew	advmod
131	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	132 knew	nsubj
132	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 scuttled	parataxis
133	precisely	precisely	ADV	_	132 knew	advmod
134	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	136 look	advmod
135	to	to	PART	_	136 look	mark
136	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	132 knew	advcl
137	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 scuttled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scuttle	past	Giraffe			day		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	Giraffe		a great forest			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial_Location
3	hide	past	Giraffe		there			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	stand	gerund	the Giraffe not said here	half	the shade and half out half			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent half=Theme in shade=Destination
5	fall	gerund	the trees not said here				on Giraffe	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on they=Location
6	grow	past	the Giraffe			time	blotchy property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	grow	past	the Zebra				stripy property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	grow	past	the Eland and the Koodoo				with little wavy grey lines on Giraffe's backs like bark on a tree trunk; dark property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	hear	could	you	Giraffe				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
10	smell	infinitive	you not said here	Giraffe				vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
11	see	could	you	Giraffe			seldom property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
12	know	past	you			then	precisely property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
13	look	to-infinitive	you not said here					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
14	shadow			the trees				nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient

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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