--- title: After a long time standing half in shade and half in sun, the Giraff… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Le… · tree and pragmatics description: After a long time standing half in shade and half in sun, the Giraffe grew blotchy, the Zebra grew stripy, and the antelopes grew darker, so you could hear them and smell them but hardly ever see them. Who acts: long time, Giraffe, Zebra, antelopes. 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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 (long time, Giraffe, Zebra, antelopes), 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:2 # text = After a long time standing half in shade and half in sun, the Giraffe grew blotchy, the Zebra grew stripy, and the antelopes grew darker, so you could hear them and smell them but hardly ever see them. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 After after ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 5 standing stand VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 acl _ _ 6 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 5 obj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 shade shade NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 6 conj _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 Giraffe giraffe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 16 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 blotchy blotchy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 Zebra zebra NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 22 stripy stripy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 xcomp _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 antelopes antelope NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 28 darker dark ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 27 xcomp _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 so so ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 advcl _ _ 34 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 smell smell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 conj _ _ 37 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 but but CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 39 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 40 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 41 advmod _ _ 41 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 conj _ _ 42 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | gerund | a long time *not said here* | half and half | | shade | | in sun | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent half=Theme in shade=Destination | | 2 | **grow** | past | the Giraffe | | | | time | blotchy *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **grow** | past | the Zebra | | | | | stripy *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **grow** | past | the antelopes | | | | | dark *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **hear** | could | you | Giraffe | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | | 6 | **smell** | infinitive | you *not said here* | Giraffe | | | | | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | | 7 | **see** | infinitive | you *not said here* | Giraffe | | | ever | hardly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | 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:2`. **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): R5-strong ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4:…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/77-justso-leopard-spots-1/1/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4:…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/77-justso-leopard-spots-1/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/77-justso-leopard-spots-1/)