Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 2 (the tug-of-war and the trunk), sentence 15

At home he knocked two brothers "head over heels", threw the Baboon (who said the trunk "looks very ugly") into a hornets' nest, pulled the Ostrich's tail-feathers, dragged the Giraffe through a thorn-bush, and blew bubbles in the Hippo's ear, "but he never let any one touch Kolokolo Bird".

Who acts: Snake, Baboon, trunk, one · What happens: knock, throw, say, look, pull, drag · To what, where: two brothers, home, Baboon, nest, tail feathers, Giraffe · 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, Baboon, trunk, one), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 home	case
2	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knocked	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knocked	nsubj
4	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 brothers	nummod
6	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 knocked	obj
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 head	punct
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knocked	obl:unmarked
9	over	over	ADP	_	10 heels	case
10	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 head	nmod
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 head	punct
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 threw	punct
13	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knocked	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Baboon	det
15	Baboon	baboon	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 threw	obj
16	(	(	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 Baboon	acl:relcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 trunk	det
20	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 looks	nsubj
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 looks	punct
22	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 said	ccomp
23	very	very	ADV	_	24 ugly	advmod
24	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 looks	xcomp
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 looks	punct
26	)	)	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
27	into	into	ADP	_	31 nest	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 hornets	det
29	hornets	hornet	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 nest	nmod:poss
30	'	's	PART	_	29 hornets	case
31	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 threw	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 pulled	punct
33	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knocked	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Ostrich	det
35	Ostrich	ostrich	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 feathers	nmod:poss
36	's	's	PART	_	35 Ostrich	case
37	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 feathers	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 tail	punct
39	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 pulled	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 dragged	punct
41	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knocked	conj
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 Giraffe	det
43	Giraffe	giraffe	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 dragged	obj
44	through	through	ADP	_	48 bush	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 bush	det
46	thorn	thorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 bush	compound
47	-	-	PUNCT	_	46 thorn	punct
48	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 dragged	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 blew	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 blew	cc
51	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knocked	conj
52	bubbles	bubble	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 blew	obj
53	in	in	ADP	_	57 ear	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 Hippo	det
55	Hippo	hippo	PROPN	Number=Sing	57 ear	nmod:poss
56	's	's	PART	_	55 Hippo	case
57	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 blew	obl
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 blew	punct
59	"	"	PUNCT	_	63 let	punct
60	but	but	CCONJ	_	63 let	cc
61	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 let	nsubj
62	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	63 let	advmod
63	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knocked	conj
64	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	65 one	det
65	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	66 touch	nsubj
66	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	63 let	xcomp
67	Kolokolo	Kolokolo	PROPN	Number=Sing	68 Bird	compound
68	Bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 touch	obj
69	"	"	PUNCT	_	63 let	punct
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 knocked	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	knock	past	Snake	two brothers	home	head over heels obl:unmarked	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent brother=Theme at home=Destination
2	throw	past	Snake not said here	the Baboon		into a hornets's nest result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer baboon=Theme into nest=Result
3	say speech: assert	past	the Baboon				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	look in a quote	present	the trunk			ugly property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	pull	past	Snake not said here	the Ostrich's tail feathers			vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Theme
6	drag	past	Snake not said here	the Giraffe	a thorn bush		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giraffe=Theme
7	blow	past	Snake not said here	bubbles		in the Hippo's ear	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent bubble=Patient in ear=Topic
8	not let in a quote	past	Snake				tree rules
9	touch in a quote	infinitive	any one	Kolokolo Bird			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bird=Co-Theme

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:15.

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 ×6, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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