Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 2 (the tug-of-war and the trunk), sentence 13

Going home he pulled fruit down from trees, used a branch as a fly-whisk, and sang down his trunk "louder than several brass bands"; he picked up the melon rind he had dropped, "for he was a Tidy Pachyderm" (a thick-skinned animal).

Who acts: Snake · What happens: go, pull, use, sing down, pick up, drop · To what, where: fruit, trees, branch, trunk, melon rind, Tidy Pachyderm · 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), 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	Going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 pulled	advcl
2	home	home	ADV	_	1 Going	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pulled	nsubj
4	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pulled	obj
6	down	down	PART	_	5 fruit	compound:prt
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 trees	case
8	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pulled	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 used	punct
10	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pulled	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 branch	det
12	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 used	obj
13	as	as	ADP	_	17 whisk	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 whisk	det
15	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 whisk	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 fly	punct
17	whisk	whisk	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 used	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sang	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 sang	cc
20	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pulled	conj
21	down	down	ADP	_	20 sang	compound:prt
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 trunk	nmod:poss
23	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sang	obj
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 louder	punct
25	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 sang	obj
26	than	than	ADP	_	29 bands	case
27	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 bands	amod
28	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bands	compound
29	bands	band	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 louder	obl
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 louder	punct
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 picked	punct
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 picked	nsubj
33	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pulled	parataxis
34	up	up	ADP	_	33 picked	compound:prt
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 rind	det
36	melon	melon	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 rind	compound
37	rind	rind	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 picked	obj
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 dropped	nsubj
39	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 dropped	aux
40	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 rind	acl:relcl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 picked	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 picked	punct
43	for	for	SCONJ	_	48 Pachyderm	mark
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 Pachyderm	nsubj
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 Pachyderm	cop
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 Pachyderm	det
47	Tidy	tidy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 Pachyderm	amod
48	Pachyderm	pachyderm	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 picked	advcl
49	"	"	PUNCT	_	48 Pachyderm	punct
50	(	(	PUNCT	_	55 animal	punct
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 animal	det
52	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 animal	amod
53	-	-	PUNCT	_	52 thick	punct
54	skinned	skinned	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	55 animal	amod
55	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 Pachyderm	appos
56	)	)	PUNCT	_	55 animal	punct
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pulled	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	gerund	Snake not said here			home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pull	past	Snake	fruit	trees		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent fruit=Theme from tree=Initial_Location
3	use	past	Snake not said here	a branch		as a fly whisk	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent branch=Duration as whisk=Attribute
4	sing down speech: express	past	Snake not said here	Snake's trunk			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent trunk=Beneficiary loud=Theme
5	pick up	past	Snake	the melon rind			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rind=Topic
6	drop	past · perfect	Snake	the melon rind not said here			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rind=Theme
7	is a in a quote	past	Snake	a Tidy Pachyderm			tree rules
8	skinned	participle					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:080-justso-elephants-child-2.lesson:13.

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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×4. 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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