Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 2 (the tug-of-war and the trunk), sentence 12

"'Vantage" is short for "advantage" (a good point): one, he swatted a fly dead; two, he plucked grass, dusted it clean against his fore-legs and ate it; three, he "schlooped up a schloop of mud" and made a cool mud-cap.

Who acts: Vantage, Snake · What happens: be, swat, pluck, dust, eat, schloop up · To what, where: fly, grass, fore legs, schloop, cool mud cap · 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 (Vantage, Snake), 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	_	6 short	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 Vantage	punct
3	Vantage	vantage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 short	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Vantage	punct
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 short	cop
6	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 advantage	case
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 advantage	punct
9	advantage	advantage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 short	obl
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 advantage	punct
11	(	(	PUNCT	_	14 point	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 point	det
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 point	amod
14	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 short	parataxis
15	)	)	PUNCT	_	14 point	punct
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 short	punct
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 short	dep
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 swatted	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 swatted	nsubj
20	swatted	swat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 short	parataxis
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 fly	det
22	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 swatted	obj
23	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 swatted	xcomp
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 two	punct
25	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 short	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 plucked	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 plucked	nsubj
28	plucked	pluck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 short	parataxis
29	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 plucked	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 dusted	punct
31	dusted	dust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 plucked	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 dusted	obj
33	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 dusted	xcomp
34	against	against	ADP	_	38 legs	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 legs	nmod:poss
36	fore	fore	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 legs	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 fore	punct
38	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 dusted	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 ate	cc
40	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 dusted	conj
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 ate	obj
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 three	punct
43	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 ate	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 schlooped	punct
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 schlooped	nsubj
46	"	"	PUNCT	_	47 schlooped	punct
47	schlooped	schloop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 short	parataxis
48	up	up	ADP	_	47 schlooped	compound:prt
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 schloop	det
50	schloop	schloop	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 schlooped	obj
51	of	of	ADP	_	52 mud	case
52	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 schloop	nmod
53	"	"	PUNCT	_	47 schlooped	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 made	cc
55	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 schlooped	conj
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	60 cap	det
57	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 cap	amod
58	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 cap	compound
59	-	-	PUNCT	_	58 mud	punct
60	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 made	obj
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 short	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Vantage			for advantage; short property	tree rules
2	swat	past	Snake	a fly		dead property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Patient
3	pluck	past	Snake	grass			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient
4	dust	past	Snake not said here	grass	Snake's fore legs	clean property	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme against leg=Destination
5	eat	past	Snake not said here	grass		three obl	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
6	schloop up in a quote	past	Snake	a schloop of mud			tree rules
7	make	past	Snake not said here	a cool mud cap			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cap=Product

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:12.

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 ×2, 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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