Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 1 (What does the Crocodile have for dinner?), sentence 12

His families "spanked him once more for luck", and he went off "a little warm, but not at all astonished", "throwing the rind about, because he could not pick it up".

Who acts: families, Bird · What happens: spank, go off, throw, not pick up · To what, where: Bird, rind

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 (families, 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 families	nmod:poss
2	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 spanked	nsubj
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 spanked	punct
4	spanked	spank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spanked	obj
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 more	advmod
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 spanked	advmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 luck	case
9	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spanked	obl
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 spanked	punct
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 went	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 went	nsubj
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spanked	conj
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 went	compound:prt
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 warm	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 little	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 warm	obl
19	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 went	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 astonished	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 astonished	cc
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 astonished	advmod
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 all	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 astonished	obl
25	astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 warm	conj
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 warm	punct
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 throwing	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 throwing	punct
29	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 went	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 rind	det
31	rind	rind	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 throwing	obj
32	about	about	ADV	_	29 throwing	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 pick	punct
34	because	because	SCONJ	_	38 pick	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 pick	nsubj
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 pick	aux
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 pick	advmod
38	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 throwing	advcl
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 pick	obj
40	up	up	ADP	_	38 pick	compound:prt
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 throwing	punct
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 spanked	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	spank in a quote	past	Bird's families	Bird	for luck	vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	go off	past	Bird		warm property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
3	throw in a quote	gerund	Bird not said here	the rind	about property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rind=Theme
4	not pick up in a quote	could	Bird	rind		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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:12.

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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×5, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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