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

"In the High and Far-Off Times the Elephant ... had no trunk", only "a blackish, bulgy nose, as big as a boot" that he could wriggle but not pick things up with.

Who acts: Child · What happens: have, wriggle, not pick up · To what, where: trunk, High, blackish bulgy nose, things

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 (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	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
2	In	in	ADP	_	4 High	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 High	det
4	High	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 had	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 had	cc
6	Far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 had	advmod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Far	punct
8	Off	off	ADP	_	9 Times	case
9	Times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 had	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Elephant	det
11	Elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Times	nmod:unmarked
12	...	...	PUNCT	_	6 Far	punct
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 trunk	det
15	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 trunk	punct
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 nose	punct
18	only	only	ADV	_	24 nose	advmod
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 nose	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 nose	det
21	blackish	blackish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 nose	amod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 blackish	punct
23	bulgy	bulgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 nose	amod
24	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 trunk	appos
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 big	punct
26	as	as	ADV	_	27 big	advmod
27	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 nose	amod
28	as	as	ADP	_	30 boot	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 boot	det
30	boot	boot	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 big	obl
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 nose	punct
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 wriggle	obj
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 wriggle	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 wriggle	aux
35	wriggle	wriggle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 nose	acl:relcl
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 pick	cc
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 pick	advmod
38	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 wriggle	conj
39	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 pick	obj
40	up	up	ADP	_	38 pick	compound:prt
41	with	with	ADP	_	38 pick	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=narrate

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	past		no trunk	the High	time	far property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trunk=Patient
2	wriggle	could	Child	a blackish bulgy nose				tree rules
3	not pick up	infinitive	Child not said here	things				vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic

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:5.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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