Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 1 (What does the Crocodile have for dinner?), sentence 22

Real biology: Nile crocodiles really do lie still like logs at the water's edge and ambush animals that come to drink, even big ones; that is why going close to a crocodile is truly dangerous.

Who acts: Nile crocodiles, animals, that, going · What happens: lie, ambush, come, drink, be, go · To what, where: edge, big ones

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 (Nile crocodiles, animals, that, going), 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 biology	amod
2	biology	biology	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 crocodiles	punct
4	Nile	Nile	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 crocodiles	compound
5	crocodiles	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 biology	conj
6	really	really	ADV	_	8 lie	advmod
7	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 lie	aux
8	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 crocodiles	acl:relcl
9	still	still	ADV	_	8 lie	advmod
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 logs	case
11	logs	log	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lie	obl
12	at	at	ADP	_	16 edge	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 water	det
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 edge	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 water	case
16	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lie	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 animals	cc
18	ambush	ambush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 lie	conj
19	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 edge	conj
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 come	nsubj
21	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 animals	acl:relcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 drink	mark
23	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 come	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 ones	punct
25	even	even	ADV	_	27 ones	advmod
26	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 ones	amod
27	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 drink	obj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 dangerous	punct
29	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 why	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 why	cop
31	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	39 dangerous	advmod
32	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	39 dangerous	csubj
33	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 going	advmod
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 crocodile	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 crocodile	det
36	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 going	obl
37	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 dangerous	cop
38	truly	truly	ADV	_	39 dangerous	advmod
39	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 biology	parataxis
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 biology	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	present · do-support	Nile crocodiles not said here		the water's edge and animals	still	like logs	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at edge=Location
2	ambush	present	Nile crocodiles not said here					vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	come	present	animals					tree rules
4	drink	to-infinitive	animals not said here	big ones				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
5	is	present	that				why property	tree rules
6	go	gerund					to a crocodile; close property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to crocodile=Initial_Location
7	is	present	going				dangerous, truly 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:22.

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. 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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