Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 1 (What does the Crocodile have for dinner?), sentence 18

The Crocodile caught him "by his little nose" and said "between his teeth" that "to-day I will begin with Elephant's Child!"; with his nose squeezed, the Elephant's Child cried "Led go!

Who acts: Crocodile, Child · What happens: catch, say, begin, squeeze, cry, lead · To what, where: Child · 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 (Crocodile, Child), 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	2 Crocodile	det
2	Crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caught	nsubj
3	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 caught	obj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 nose	punct
6	by	by	ADP	_	9 nose	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 nose	nmod:poss
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 nose	amod
9	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caught	obl
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 nose	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 caught	conj
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 teeth	punct
14	between	between	ADP	_	16 teeth	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 teeth	nmod:poss
16	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 said	obl
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 teeth	punct
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 begin	mark
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 begin	punct
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 day	case
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 to	punct
22	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 begin	obl
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 begin	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 begin	aux
25	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
26	with	with	ADP	_	29 Child	case
27	Elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 Child	nmod:poss
28	's	's	PART	_	27 Elephant	case
29	Child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 begin	obl
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 teeth	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 teeth	punct
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 squeezed	punct
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 nose	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 nose	nmod:poss
35	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 squeezed	obl
36	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 cried	advcl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 cried	punct
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Elephant	det
39	Elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 Child	nmod:poss
40	's	's	PART	_	39 Elephant	case
41	Child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 cried	nsubj
42	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 caught	conj
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	44 Led	punct
44	Led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 cried	conj
45	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 cried	ccomp
46	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 caught	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	the Crocodile	Child		by Crocodile's little nose	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	say speech: express	past	the Crocodile not said here			between Crocodile's teeth	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	begin in a quote	future	the Crocodile = crocodile		day	with Elephant's Child	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with child=Subeventuality
4	squeeze	participle	the Elephant's Child not said here			with Crocodile's nose	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
5	cry speech: express	past	the Elephant's Child				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	lead in a quote	past	the Elephant's Child not said here				vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
7	go in a quote	infinitive					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:18.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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