Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 1 (What does the Crocodile have for dinner?), sentence 4

The trusting Elephant's Child leans close, and the Crocodile grabs him by the nose and says he will begin his dinner with Elephant's Child: the part ends with a funny squashed-nose cry for help and a real danger.

Who acts: trusting Child, Crocodile, Child, part · What happens: trust, lean, grab, say, begin, end · To what, where: Child, dinner · 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 (trusting Child, Crocodile, Child, part), 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	5 Child	det
2	trusting	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 Child	amod
3	Elephant	elephant	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Child	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Elephant	case
5	Child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leans	nsubj
6	leans	lean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	close	close	ADV	_	6 leans	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 grabs	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 grabs	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Crocodile	det
11	Crocodile	crocodile	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 grabs	nsubj
12	grabs	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 leans	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 grabs	obj
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 nose	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 nose	det
16	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grabs	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 says	cc
18	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 grabs	conj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 begin	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 begin	aux
21	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 says	ccomp
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 dinner	nmod:poss
23	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 begin	obj
24	with	with	ADP	_	27 Child	case
25	Elephant	elephant	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Child	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 Elephant	case
27	Child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 begin	obl
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 ends	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 part	det
30	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 ends	nsubj
31	ends	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 leans	parataxis
32	with	with	ADP	_	38 cry	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 cry	det
34	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 cry	amod
35	squashed	squash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 nose	amod
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 squashed	punct
37	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 cry	compound
38	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 ends	obl
39	for	for	ADP	_	40 help	case
40	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 cry	nmod
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 danger	cc
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 danger	det
43	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 danger	amod
44	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 help	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 leans	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	trust	gerund				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	lean	present	Elephant's trusting Child		close property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	grab	present	the Crocodile	Child	by the nose	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	say speech: assert	present	the Crocodile not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	begin	future	Child	Child's dinner	with Elephant's Child	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.subeventuality»: agent=Agent dinner=Eventuality with child=Subeventuality
6	end	present	the part		with a funny nose cry for help and a real danger	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with cry=Subeventuality
7	squash	participle				vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: 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:4.

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): R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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