Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 2 (the tug-of-war and the trunk), sentence 17

When they came back nobody spanked anybody any more"; hitting people is wrong, and the story's ending is happiest when nobody does it.

Who acts: bubbles, nobody, hitting, ending, story · What happens: come back, spank, hit, be, do, end · To what, where: anybody, people, ending · 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 (bubbles, nobody, hitting, ending), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 came	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 spanked	advcl
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 spanked	nsubj
6	spanked	spank	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 spanked	obj
8	any	any	ADV	_	9 more	advmod
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 spanked	advmod
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 spanked	punct
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 spanked	punct
12	hitting	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 wrong	csubj
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 hitting	obj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 wrong	cop
15	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 spanked	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 wrong	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 happiest	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 story	det
19	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ending	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 story	case
21	ending	ending	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 happiest	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 happiest	cop
23	happiest	happy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 wrong	conj
24	when	when	SCONJ	_	26 does	mark
25	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	26 does	nsubj
26	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 happiest	advcl
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 does	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 spanked	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: evaluate
voice: character
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come back	past	bubbles = bubble			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	spank	past	nobody	anybody		tree rules
3	hit in a quote	gerund		people		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme people=Co-Theme
4	is in a quote	present	hitting		wrong property	tree rules
5	is in a quote	present	the story's ending		happy property	tree rules
6	do in a quote	present	nobody	ending		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
7	end in a quote		the story			nom ending «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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:17.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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