Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 1 (What does the Crocodile have for dinner?), sentence 1

One morning he asks the one question nobody dares to answer, "What does the Crocodile have for dinner?", and the Kolokolo Bird tells him to go and find out at the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River.

Who acts: Child, nobody, Crocodile, Kolokolo Bird · What happens: ask, dare, answer, have, tell, go · To what, where: one question, Child, great green greasy Limpopo River · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Child, nobody, Crocodile, Kolokolo Bird), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

narrate

voice

narrator

polarity

none

teacher

changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator

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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