Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 1 (What does the Crocodile have for dinner?), sentence 16

He trod on "what he thought was a log of wood", but it was the Crocodile, who "winked one eye--like this!", then winked the other eye and lifted half his tail out of the mud, and "wept crocodile-tears to show it was quite true".

Who acts: Child, wood, Crocodile · What happens: tread, think, be, wink, lift, weep · To what, where: log, Crocodile, one eye, other eye, tail, mud · 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, wood, Crocodile), 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 trod	nsubj
2	trod	tread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	10 log	case
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 log	punct
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 log	nsubj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 thought	nsubj
7	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 what	acl:relcl
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 log	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 log	det
10	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 trod	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 wood	case
12	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 log	nmod
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 wood	punct
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Crocodile	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 Crocodile	cc
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 Crocodile	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 Crocodile	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Crocodile	det
19	Crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 trod	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 winked	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 winked	nsubj
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 winked	punct
23	winked	wink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 Crocodile	acl:relcl
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 eye	nummod
25	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 winked	obj
26	--	--	PUNCT	_	23 winked	punct
27	like	like	ADP	_	28 this	case
28	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 winked	obl
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	23 winked	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 winked	punct
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 winked	punct
32	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 winked	advmod
33	winked	wink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 trod	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 eye	det
35	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 eye	amod
36	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 winked	obj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 lifted	cc
38	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 winked	conj
39	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	41 tail	det:predet
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 tail	nmod:poss
41	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 lifted	obj
42	out	out	ADP	_	45 mud	case
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 mud	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 mud	det
45	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 lifted	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 wept	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 wept	cc
48	"	"	PUNCT	_	49 wept	punct
49	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 winked	conj
50	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 tears	compound
51	-	-	PUNCT	_	50 crocodile	punct
52	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 wept	obj
53	to	to	PART	_	54 show	mark
54	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 wept	advcl
55	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 true	nsubj
56	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 true	cop
57	quite	quite	ADV	_	58 true	advmod
58	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 show	ccomp
59	"	"	PUNCT	_	49 wept	punct
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 trod	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tread	past	Child					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	think speech: other in a quote	past	Child					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	past			a log		of wood	tree rules
4	is a	past	wood	the Crocodile				tree rules
5	wink in a quote	past	the Crocodile	one eye			like this	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
6	wink	past	Child not said here	the other eye		then		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
7	lift	past	Child not said here	Crocodile's tail	the mud			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tail=Theme out mud=Destination
8	weep in a quote	past	Child not said here	crocodile tears				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tear=Theme
9	show in a quote	to-infinitive	Child not said here					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	is in a quote	past	wood				true property	tree rules

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:16.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-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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