--- title: The Zebra went to "little thorn-bushes where the sunlight fell all s… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Le… · tree and pragmatics description: The Zebra went to "little thorn-bushes where the sunlight fell all stripy", the Giraffe to "tallish trees where the shadows fell all blotchy", and they said "One--two--three! Who acts: Zebra, sunlight, shadows. 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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 (Zebra, sunlight, shadows), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:078-justso-leopard-spots-2.lesson:11 # text = The Zebra went to "little thorn-bushes where the sunlight fell all stripy", the Giraffe to "tallish trees where the shadows fell all blotchy", and they said "One--two--three! # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 078-justso-leopard-spots-2.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Zebra Zebra PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:case|HaikuPos=ADP:TO:_ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 6 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 7 thorn thorn NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ _ 9 bushes bush NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 10 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 13 advmod _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 sunlight sunlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:advcl 14 all all ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 stripy stripy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 Giraffe giraffe NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 20 to to ADP TO _ 23 case _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 22 tallish tallish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 24 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 27 advmod _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 shadows shadow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 28 all all ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 blotchy blotchy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 xcomp _ _ 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis 35 " " PUNCT `` _ 40 punct _ _ 36 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 40 nsubj _ _ 37 -- -- PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 36 conj _ _ 39 -- -- PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 34 ccomp _ _ 41 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | the Zebra | | | little thorn bushes and the Giraffe and tallish trees | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bush=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **fall** *in a quote* | past | the sunlight | | | | | stripy *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **fall** *in a quote* | past | the shadows | | | | | blotchy *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | shadows *= shadow* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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:078-justso-leopard-spots-2.lesson:11`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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:…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/78-justso-leopard-spots-2/10/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4:…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/78-justso-leopard-spots-2/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/78-justso-leopard-spots-2/)