Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 1 (What does the Crocodile have for dinner?), sentence 17

"Crocodile tears" means pretend sadness; real crocodiles do make tears, but only to keep their eyes wet, not because they feel sorry.

Who acts: Crocodile tears, real crocodiles, tears · What happens: mean, make, keep, not feel · To what, where: pretend sadness, tears, eyes

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 (Crocodile tears, real crocodiles, tears), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 tears	punct
2	Crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tears	compound
3	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 means	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 tears	punct
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	pretend	pretend	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sadness	amod
7	sadness	sadness	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 make	punct
9	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 crocodiles	amod
10	crocodiles	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 make	nsubj
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 make	aux
12	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 means	parataxis
13	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 make	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 keep	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 keep	cc
16	only	only	ADV	_	18 keep	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 keep	mark
18	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 means	conj
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 eyes	nmod:poss
20	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 keep	obj
21	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 keep	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 feel	punct
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 feel	advmod
24	because	because	SCONJ	_	26 feel	mark
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 feel	nsubj
26	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 keep	advcl
27	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 feel	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Crocodile tears	pretend sadness		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sadness=Topic
2	make	present · do-support	real crocodiles	tears		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tear=Product
3	keep	to-infinitive	Crocodile tears not said here	tears's eyes	wet property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
4	not feel	present	tears = tear		sorry property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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:17.

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): R7-rel-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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