Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 1 (What does the Crocodile have for dinner?), sentence 15

What will you ask me next?", and spanked him "with his scalesome, flailsome tail"; the Elephant's Child, who was always most polite and began his questions with "'Scuse me", said "I suppose this is the same thing" (another spanking for asking) and politely helped coil him up on his rock again.

Who acts: you, Child, I, this, spanking, Bi Coloured Python Rock Snake · What happens: ask, spank, be, begin, scuse, say · To what, where: me, Crocodile, questions, same thing, rock · 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 (you, Child, I, this), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 ask	obj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 ask	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 ask	nsubj
4	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 ask	iobj
6	next	next	ADV	_	4 ask	advmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 ask	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 ask	punct
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 spanked	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 spanked	cc
11	spanked	spank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ask	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 spanked	obj
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 spanked	punct
14	with	with	ADP	_	19 tail	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 tail	nmod:poss
16	scalesome	scalesome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tail	amod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 scalesome	punct
18	flailsome	flailsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tail	amod
19	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 spanked	obl
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 tail	punct
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 Child	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Elephant	det
23	Elephant	elephant	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Child	nmod:poss
24	's	's	PART	_	23 Elephant	case
25	Child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 spanked	nsubj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 polite	punct
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 polite	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 polite	cop
29	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	31 polite	advmod
30	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	31 polite	advmod
31	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 Child	acl:relcl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 began	cc
33	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 polite	conj
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 questions	nmod:poss
35	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 began	obj
36	with	with	SCONJ	_	39 Scuse	mark
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	39 Scuse	punct
38	'	'	PUNCT	_	39 Scuse	punct
39	Scuse	scuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 began	xcomp
40	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 Scuse	obj
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	39 Scuse	punct
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 said	punct
43	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 Scuse	conj
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	46 suppose	punct
45	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 suppose	nsubj
46	suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 said	ccomp
47	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	51 thing	nsubj
48	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 thing	cop
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 thing	det
50	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 thing	amod
51	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 suppose	ccomp
52	"	"	PUNCT	_	46 suppose	punct
53	(	(	PUNCT	_	55 spanking	punct
54	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	55 spanking	det
55	spanking	spanking	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 suppose	parataxis
56	for	for	SCONJ	_	57 asking	mark
57	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	55 spanking	acl
58	)	)	PUNCT	_	55 spanking	punct
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 helped	cc
60	politely	politely	ADV	_	61 helped	advmod
61	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 suppose	conj
62	coil	coil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	61 helped	xcomp
63	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 coil	obj
64	up	up	ADP	_	62 coil	compound:prt
65	on	on	ADP	_	67 rock	case
66	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	67 rock	nmod:poss
67	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 coil	obl
68	again	again	ADV	_	62 coil	advmod
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ask	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=narrate

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	future	you		me			next property	tree rules
2	spank in a quote	past	the Elephant's Child	Crocodile				with Crocodile's scalesome flailsome tail	vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with tail=Instrument
3	is in a quote	past	the Elephant's Child					always, polite property	tree rules
4	begin in a quote	past	the Elephant's Child not said here	Crocodile's questions					tree rules
5	scuse	infinitive	the Elephant's Child not said here	me					tree rules
6	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the Elephant's Child not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	suppose	present	I						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
8	is a	present	this	the same thing					tree rules
9	ask speech: ask in a quote	gerund	another spanking not said here						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	help in a quote	past	the Bi Coloured Python Rock Snake = snake not said here					politely property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
11	coil up in a quote	infinitive	the Bi Coloured Python Rock Snake = snake not said here	Crocodile		Crocodile's rock	again		vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent he=Material
12	question in a quote		Crocodile						nom question «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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:15.

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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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.

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