--- title: That puzzled the Leopard and the Ethiopian, but they set off to look… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: That puzzled the Leopard and the Ethiopian, but they set off to look for the aboriginal Flora, and presently, after ever so many days, they saw a great, high, tall forest full of tree trunks all ‘sclusively speckled and sprottled and spottled, dotted and splashed and slashed and hatched and cross-ha --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/5/23/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Just so stories](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/) / [How the Leopard Got His Spots](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/5/) / 23 # Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 23 That puzzled the Leopard and the Ethiopian, but they set off to look for the aboriginal Flora, and presently, after ever so many days, they saw a great, high, tall forest full of tree trunks all ‘sclusively speckled and sprottled and spottled, dotted and splashed and slashed and hatched and cross-hatched with shadows. **Who acts:** That, breakfasts · **What happens:** puzzle, set off, look, see, speckle, sprottl · **To what, where:** Leopard, great high tall forest 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 (That, breakfasts), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2781:5:23 # text = That puzzled the Leopard and the Ethiopian, but they set off to look for the aboriginal Flora, and presently, after ever so many days, they saw a great, high, tall forest full of tree trunks all ‘sclusively speckled and sprottled and spottled, dotted and splashed and slashed and hatched and cross-hatched with shadows. 1 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 nsubj _ _ 2 puzzled puzzle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Leopard Leopard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Ethiopian Ethiopian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 12 off off ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 15 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 aboriginal aboriginal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 Flora Flora PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 presently presently ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 after after ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 24 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 26 advmod _ _ 25 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 32 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 34 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 36 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 38 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 trunks trunk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl _ _ 42 all all ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 43 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 sclusively sclusively ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 45 speckled speckle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 advcl _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 47 sprottled sprottl VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 45 conj _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 49 spottled spottl VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 45 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 51 dotted dot VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 45 conj _ _ 52 and and CCONJ CC _ 53 cc _ _ 53 splashed splash VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 51 conj _ _ 54 and and CCONJ CC _ 55 cc _ _ 55 slashed slash VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 53 conj _ _ 56 and and CCONJ CC _ 57 cc _ _ 57 hatched hatch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 55 conj _ _ 58 and and CCONJ CC _ 59 cc _ _ 59 cross-hatched cross-hatch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 57 conj _ _ 60 with with ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 61 shadows shadow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 59 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 62 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **puzzle** | past | That | the Leopard and the Ethiopian | | | day | presently *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus leopard=Experiencer | | 2 | **set off** | past | breakfasts *= breakfast* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **look** | to-infinitive | breakfasts *= breakfast* *not said here* | | | | | for the aboriginal Flora | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for flora=Theme | | 4 | **see** | past | breakfasts *= breakfast* | a great high tall forest | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer forest=Stimulus | | 5 | **speckle** | participle | breakfasts *= breakfast* *not said here* | | | | | all, sclusively *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **sprottl** | participle | breakfasts *= breakfast* *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **spottl** | participle | breakfasts *= breakfast* *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **dot** | participle | breakfasts *= breakfast* *not said here* | | | | | | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **splash** | participle | breakfasts *= breakfast* *not said here* | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 10 | **slash** | participle | breakfasts *= breakfast* *not said here* | | | | | | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 11 | **hatch** | participle | breakfasts *= breakfast* *not said here* | | | | | | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient | | 12 | **cross-hatch** | participle | breakfasts *= breakfast* *not said here* | | | | | with shadows | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/5/22/) - next →: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/5/24/) - ↑ back to [How the Leopard Got His Spots](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/5/)