Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 1 (What does the Crocodile have for dinner?), sentence 6

"'Satiable curtiosity" is Kipling's baby-talk for "insatiable curiosity", wanting to know things so much that you are never satisfied.

Who acts: Satiable curtiosity, baby talk, you · What happens: be, want, know, not be · To what, where: baby talk, 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 (Satiable curtiosity, baby talk, you), 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	_	11 talk	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 curtiosity	punct
3	Satiable	satiable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 curtiosity	amod
4	curtiosity	curtiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 talk	nsubj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 curtiosity	punct
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 talk	cop
7	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 talk	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Kipling	case
9	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 talk	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 baby	punct
11	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 curiosity	case
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 curiosity	punct
14	insatiable	insatiable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 curiosity	amod
15	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 talk	nmod
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 curiosity	punct
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wanting	punct
18	wanting	want	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 talk	acl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 know	mark
20	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 wanting	xcomp
21	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 know	obj
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 much	advmod
23	much	much	ADV	_	20 know	advmod
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 satisfied	mark
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 satisfied	nsubj
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 satisfied	cop
27	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	28 satisfied	advmod
28	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 know	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 talk	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Satiable curtiosity	Kipling's baby talk	for insatiable curiosity	tree rules
2	want	gerund	Kipling's baby talk not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	know not said to happen	to-infinitive	Kipling's baby talk not said here	things		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
4	not is	present	you		satisfied 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:6.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/79-justso-elephants-child-1/6/