Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 1 (What does the Crocodile have for dinner?), sentence 9

His new question, "What does the Crocodile have for dinner?", made everybody say "Hush!" "in a loud and dretful tone" ("dretful" = dreadful).

Who acts: Crocodile, new question, everybody, Child · What happens: have, make, say, question · To what, where: Hush, loud tone · 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 (Crocodile, new question, everybody, 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 question	nmod:poss
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 question	amod
3	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 made	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 does	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct
6	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 have	obj
7	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 have	aux
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Crocodile	det
9	Crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 have	nsubj
10	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 made	parataxis
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 dinner	case
12	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 have	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 made	punct
16	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	18 say	nsubj
18	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 made	xcomp
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 Hush	punct
20	Hush	hush	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 say	obj
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	20 Hush	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 Hush	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 Hush	punct
24	in	in	ADP	_	29 tone	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 tone	det
26	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 tone	amod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 dretful	cc
28	dretful	dretful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 loud	conj
29	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 say	obl
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 tone	punct
31	(	(	PUNCT	_	33 dretful	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 dretful	punct
33	dretful	dretful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 tone	appos
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 dretful	punct
35	=	=	SYM	_	36 dreadful	dep
36	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 dretful	conj
37	)	)	PUNCT	_	33 dretful	punct
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 made	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present · do-support	the Crocodile			for dinner	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient
2	make	past	Child's new question				tree rules
3	say speech: assert	infinitive	everybody	Hush	a loud tone		vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent hush=Theme in tone=Manner
4	question		Child				nom question «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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:9.

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.

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