Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 2 (the tug-of-war and the trunk), sentence 16
His families went "to borrow new noses from the Crocodile.
Who acts: families · What happens: go, borrow · To what, where: new noses
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 (families), 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 | 2 families | nmod:poss |
| 2 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 borrow | punct |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 borrow | mark |
| 6 | borrow | borrow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | conj |
| 7 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 noses | amod |
| 8 | noses | nose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 borrow | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 Crocodile | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Crocodile | det |
| 11 | Crocodile | crocodile | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 borrow | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Snake's families | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | borrow in a quote | to-infinitive | Snake's families not said here | new noses | from the Crocodile | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent nose=Theme from crocodile=Source |
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:16.
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): 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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