Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 1 (What does the Crocodile have for dinner?), sentence 8

In old stories grown-ups spank children all the time; today we know that hitting children is wrong, and Kipling makes it silly on purpose.

Who acts: grown ups, we, hitting, Kipling · What happens: grow, spank, know, hit, be, make · To what, where: children, old stories, skin, purpose · 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 (grown ups, we, hitting, Kipling), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/79-justso-elephants-child-1/8/