--- title: Rudyard Kipling's «Just So Stories» (1902) tell how animals «got» th… — The real animals of the Just So Stories: the wha… · tree and pragmatics description: Rudyard Kipling's «Just So Stories» (1902) tell how animals «got» their shapes: the Whale his small throat, the Camel his hump, the Rhinoceros his folds, the Leopard his spots, the Elephant his trunk and the Kangaroo his long legs. Who acts: Just So Stories, animals, Whale. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Just So Stories, animals, Whale), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:404-the-real-animals-of-the-just-so-stories-whale-camel-rhino-leopard-elephant-kangaroo-armadillo-crab.lesson:0 # text = Rudyard Kipling's «Just So Stories» (1902) tell how animals «got» their shapes: the Whale his small throat, the Camel his hump, the Rhinoceros his folds, the Leopard his spots, the Elephant his trunk and the Kangaroo his long legs. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 404-the-real-animals-of-the-just-so-stories-whale-camel-rhino-leopard-elephant-kangaroo-armadillo-crab.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Rudyard Rudyard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 Kipling kipling NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 5 Just Just PROPN NNP _ 7 flat _ _ 6 So so PROPN NNP _ 7 flat _ _ 7 Stories story PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 8 » » PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 9 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 10 1902 1902 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 obl _ _ 11 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 12 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 13 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 14 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 15 « « PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 16 got get VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 12 ccomp _ _ 17 » » PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 18 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 shapes shape NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obl 20 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 Whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 throat throat NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 Camel camel NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 29 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 hump hump NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 appos _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 Rhinoceros rhinoceros PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 34 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 folds fold NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 flat _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 Leopard leopard NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 appos _ _ 39 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 spots spot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 Elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 appos _ _ 44 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 trunk trunk NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 appos _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 Kangaroo kangaroo NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 49 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 51 nmod:poss _ _ 50 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 51 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 52 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Just So Stories | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **get** *in a quote* | participle | animals | animals's shapes | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shape=Stimulus | | 3 | **throat** | | the Whale | the Rhinoceros and the Kangaroo | | | | | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:biology:404-the-real-animals-of-the-just-so-stories-whale-camel-rhino-leopard-elephant-kangaroo-armadillo-crab.lesson:0`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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