Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 1 (What does the Crocodile have for dinner?), sentence 3

At the river a Python-Rock-Snake spanks him too, and then he steps on a "log" that is really the Crocodile, which winks, weeps fake tears and says "Come hither, Little One...

Who acts: Python Rock Snake, Child, log, Crocodile · What happens: spank, step, be, wink, weep, say · To what, where: Child, river, log, Crocodile, fake tears · 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 (Python Rock Snake, Child, log, 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 river	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 river	det
3	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spanks	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 Snake	det
5	Python	python	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Snake	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Python	punct
7	Rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Snake	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Rock	punct
9	Snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spanks	nsubj
10	spanks	spank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 spanks	obj
12	too	too	ADV	_	10 spanks	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 steps	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 steps	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 steps	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 steps	nsubj
17	steps	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 spanks	conj
18	on	on	ADP	_	21 log	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 log	det
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 log	punct
21	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 steps	obl
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 log	punct
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 Crocodile	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 Crocodile	cop
25	really	really	ADV	_	27 Crocodile	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Crocodile	det
27	Crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 log	acl:relcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 winks	punct
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 winks	nsubj
30	winks	wink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 Crocodile	acl:relcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 weeps	punct
32	weeps	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 winks	conj
33	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 tears	amod
34	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 weeps	obj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 says	cc
36	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 weeps	conj
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 Come	punct
38	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 says	ccomp
39	hither	hither	ADV	_	38 Come	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 One	punct
41	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 One	amod
42	One	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Crocodile	conj
43	...	...	PUNCT	_	10 spanks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spank	present	a Python Rock Snake	Child	the river			vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient at river=Location
2	step	present	Child		a log	then		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on log=Trajectory
3	is a	present	a log	the Crocodile and Little One				tree rules
4	wink	present	the Crocodile and Little One					vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	weep	present	the Crocodile and Little One not said here	fake tears				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tear=Theme
6	say speech: assert	present	the Crocodile and Little One not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	come in a quote	infinitive					hither property	vn escape-51.1-1 «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:3.

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 ×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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