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title: Giraffe is about seventeen feet high, of a ‘sclusively fulvous golde… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Giraffe is about seventeen feet high, of a ‘sclusively fulvous golden-yellow from head to heel; and Zebra is about four and a half feet high, of a’sclusively grey-fawn colour from head to heel.’ Who acts: Giraffe, fulvous, Zebra. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Leopard Go
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# Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 36

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Giraffe is about seventeen feet high, of a ‘sclusively fulvous golden-yellow from head to heel; and Zebra is about four and a half feet high, of a’sclusively grey-fawn colour from head to heel.’

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**Who acts:** Giraffe, fulvous, Zebra · **What happens:** be, heel · **To what, where:** head, four

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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 (Giraffe, fulvous, Zebra), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg2781:5:36
# text = Giraffe is about seventeen feet high, of a ‘sclusively fulvous golden-yellow from head to heel; and Zebra is about four and a half feet high, of a’sclusively grey-fawn colour from head to heel.’
1	Giraffe	giraffe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	about	about	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	seventeen	seventeen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
8	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
10	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	sclusively	sclusively	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	fulvous	fulvous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	nsubj	_	_
13	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	heel	heel	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	Zebra	Zebra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	about	about	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	29	compound	_	_
29	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
30	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
33	a’sclusively	a'sclusively	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	fawn	fawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
38	from	from	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	heel	heel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Giraffe |  |  |  |  | seventeen feet *obl:unmarked*; high *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | fulvous |  |  | head |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **heel** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present | Zebra | four and half feet |  |  |  | about *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | Giraffe *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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.

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