Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 1 (What does the Crocodile have for dinner?), sentence 0
Long ago elephants had no trunk, only a bulgy nose as big as a boot, and one young Elephant's Child was so full of "'satiable curtiosity" (endless curiosity) that he asked everybody questions, and all his aunts and uncles spanked him for it.
Who acts: elephants, Child, aunts · What happens: have, be, ask, spank · To what, where: trunk, questions, everybody, Child
This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 1 (What does the Crocodile have for dinner?)» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elephants, Child, aunts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 ago | advmod |
| 2 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 4 had | advmod |
| 3 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 trunk | det |
| 6 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 nose | punct |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 nose | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 nose | det |
| 10 | bulgy | bulgy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 nose | amod |
| 11 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | conj |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 big | advmod |
| 13 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 nose | amod |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 boot | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 boot | det |
| 16 | boot | boot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 big | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 full | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 full | cc |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 Elephant | nummod |
| 20 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Elephant | amod |
| 21 | Elephant | elephant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Child | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 Elephant | case |
| 23 | Child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 full | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 full | cop |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 full | advmod |
| 26 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 had | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 curtiosity | case |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 curtiosity | punct |
| 29 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 31 curtiosity | punct |
| 30 | satiable | satiable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 curtiosity | amod |
| 31 | curtiosity | curtiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 full | obl |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 curtiosity | punct |
| 33 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 35 curiosity | punct |
| 34 | endless | endless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 curiosity | amod |
| 35 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 curtiosity | appos |
| 36 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 35 curiosity | punct |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 asked | mark |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 asked | nsubj |
| 39 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 full | advcl |
| 40 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 39 asked | iobj |
| 41 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 asked | obj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 spanked | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 spanked | cc |
| 44 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 46 aunts | det:predet |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 aunts | nmod:poss |
| 46 | aunts | aunt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 spanked | nsubj |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 uncles | cc |
| 48 | uncles | uncle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 aunts | conj |
| 49 | spanked | spank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 full | conj |
| 50 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 spanked | obj |
| 51 | for | for | ADP | _ | 52 it | case |
| 52 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 spanked | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | elephants | no trunk | ago property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trunk=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | past | one young Elephant's Child | of satiable curtiosity; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | Child | questions | everybody | tree rules | |||
| 4 | spank | past | Child's aunts and uncles | Child | for curiosity | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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, 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:079-justso-elephants-child-1.lesson:0.
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 ×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.
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