--- title: The forest is "speckled and sprottled and spottled, dotted and splas… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Le… · tree and pragmatics description: The forest is "speckled and sprottled and spottled, dotted and splashed and slashed and hatched and cross-hatched with shadows"; Kipling says "Say that quickly aloud". Who acts: Kipling. 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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 (Kipling), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:077-justso-leopard-spots-1.lesson:16 # text = The forest is "speckled and sprottled and spottled, dotted and splashed and slashed and hatched and cross-hatched with shadows"; Kipling says "Say that quickly aloud". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 077-justso-leopard-spots-1.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): R3-conj-first ×2, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 speckled speckle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 sprottled sprottl VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 spottled spottl VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=7:conj 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 dotted dot VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 splashed splash VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 conj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 slashed slash VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 hatched hatch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 conj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 cross-hatched cross-hatch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:advcl 20 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 shadows shadow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 24 Kipling Kipling PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 27 Say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 ccomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 27 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 29 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:advmod 30 aloud aloud ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:ccomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 31 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct 32 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speckle** *in a quote* | present · passive | | the forest | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **sprottl** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **spottl** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **dot** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **splash** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **slash** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **hatch** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **cross-hatch** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | with shadows | tree rules | | 9 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Kipling | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 10 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | | that | | | | aloud, quickly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic | 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:books:077-justso-leopard-spots-1.lesson:16`. **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 ×2, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4:…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/77-justso-leopard-spots-1/15/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4:…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/77-justso-leopard-spots-1/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/77-justso-leopard-spots-1/)