Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 1 (What does the Crocodile have for dinner?), sentence 14
The "Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake" answered "in a voice of dretful scorn", "Have I seen a Crocodile?
Who acts: Bi Coloured Python Rock Snake · What happens: answer, see · To what, where: voice, Crocodile · 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 (Bi Coloured Python Rock Snake), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Snake | det |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Snake | punct |
| 3 | Bi | bi | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Snake | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Coloured | punct |
| 5 | Coloured | coloured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Snake | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Python | punct |
| 7 | Python | python | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Snake | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Python | punct |
| 9 | Rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Snake | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Snake | punct |
| 11 | Snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 answered | nsubj |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Snake | punct |
| 13 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 answered | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 voice | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 voice | det |
| 17 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 answered | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 scorn | case |
| 19 | dretful | dretful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 scorn | amod |
| 20 | scorn | scorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 voice | nmod |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 voice | punct |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Snake | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Snake | punct |
| 24 | Have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 seen | aux |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 seen | nsubj |
| 26 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 answered | ccomp |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 Crocodile | det |
| 28 | Crocodile | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 seen | obj |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 26 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=q, act=ask
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: ask | past | the Bi Coloured Python Rock Snake | a voice of dretful scorn | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | present · perfect | the Bi Coloured Python Rock Snake = snake | a Crocodile | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crocodile=Stimulus |
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:14.
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): R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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.
See the release 0.4.
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