Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 1 (What does the Crocodile have for dinner?), sentence 11
He took "a hundred pounds of bananas (the little short red kind)", "a hundred pounds of sugar-cane (the long purple kind)", and "seventeen melons (the greeny-crackly kind)".
Who acts: Bird · What happens: take · To what, where: hundred pounds
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 (Bird), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 pounds | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hundred | det |
| 5 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 pounds | nummod |
| 6 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 took | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 bananas | case |
| 8 | bananas | banana | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 pounds | nmod |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 kind | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 kind | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 kind | amod |
| 12 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 kind | amod |
| 13 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 kind | amod |
| 14 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bananas | conj |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 kind | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 kind | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bananas | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 pounds | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 pounds | det |
| 20 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 pounds | nummod |
| 21 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 pounds | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 cane | case |
| 23 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 cane | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 sugar | punct |
| 25 | cane | cane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pounds | nmod |
| 26 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 30 kind | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 kind | det |
| 28 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 kind | amod |
| 29 | purple | purple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 kind | amod |
| 30 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 cane | appos |
| 31 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 30 kind | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 kind | punct |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 melons | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 melons | cc |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 melons | punct |
| 36 | seventeen | seventeen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 melons | nummod |
| 37 | melons | melon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 cane | appos |
| 38 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 43 kind | punct |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 kind | det |
| 40 | greeny | greeny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 crackly | amod |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 greeny | punct |
| 42 | crackly | crackly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 kind | amod |
| 43 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 melons | appos |
| 44 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 43 kind | punct |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 melons | punct |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Bird | hundred pounds of bananas and the little short red kind and a hundred pounds of sugar cane | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pound=Theme |
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: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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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