Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 2 (the tug-of-war and the trunk), sentence 1

The Snake wraps himself round the Elephant's Child's back legs and pulls too, and at last the Crocodile lets go with a "plop" heard all along the Limpopo; the Elephant's Child says thank you and cools his sore nose in the river, waiting for it to shrink.

Who acts: Snake, Crocodile, Child · What happens: wrap, pull, let, go, hear, say · To what, where: Snake, last, plop, you, sore nose, river · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 2 (the tug-of-war and the trunk)» 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 (Snake, Crocodile, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Snake	det
2	Snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wraps	nsubj
3	wraps	wrap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 wraps	obj
5	round	round	ADP	_	12 legs	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Elephant	det
7	Elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Child	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Elephant	case
9	Child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 legs	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Child	case
11	back	back	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 legs	amod
12	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wraps	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 pulls	cc
14	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wraps	conj
15	too	too	ADV	_	14 pulls	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 lets	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 lets	cc
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 last	case
19	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lets	obl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Crocodile	det
21	Crocodile	crocodile	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 lets	nsubj
22	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wraps	conj
23	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 lets	xcomp
24	with	with	ADP	_	27 plop	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 plop	det
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 plop	punct
27	plop	plop	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 go	obl
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 plop	punct
29	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 plop	acl
30	all	all	ADV	_	29 heard	advmod
31	along	along	ADP	_	33 Limpopo	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Limpopo	det
33	Limpopo	limpopo	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 heard	obl
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 says	punct
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Elephant	det
36	Elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 Child	nmod:poss
37	's	's	PART	_	36 Elephant	case
38	Child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 says	nsubj
39	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wraps	parataxis
40	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 says	ccomp
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	40 thank	obj
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 cools	cc
43	cools	cool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 thank	conj
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 nose	nmod:poss
45	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 nose	amod
46	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 cools	obj
47	in	in	ADP	_	49 river	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 river	det
49	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 cools	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 waiting	punct
51	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	43 cools	advcl
52	for	for	SCONJ	_	55 shrink	mark
53	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 shrink	nsubj
54	to	to	PART	_	55 shrink	mark
55	shrink	shrink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 waiting	advcl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wraps	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	wrap	present	the Snake	Snake			round the Elephant's Child's back legs	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
2	pull	present	the Snake not said here					vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	let	present	the Crocodile			last		tree rules
4	go	infinitive	the Crocodile not said here				with a plop	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with plop=Beneficiary
5	hear	participle		a plop not said here			along the Limpopo; all property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
6	say speech: assert	present	the Elephant's Child					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	thank speech: thank	present			you			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
8	cool	present		Child's sore nose		the river		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent nose=Patient
9	wait	gerund						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	shrink	to-infinitive	Crocodile					vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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:080-justso-elephants-child-2.lesson:1.

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): R7-rel-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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