Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 2 (the tug-of-war and the trunk), sentence 19

Their names are What and Where and When / And How and Why and Who"; a small girl keeps "One million Hows, two million Wheres, / And seven million Whys!" The poet lets his six "rest from nine till five, / For I am busy then, / As well as breakfast, lunch, and tea, / For they are hungry men."

Who acts: names, small girl, poet, I, breakfast, bubbles · What happens: be, keep, let, name · To what, where: million Hows, six rest · 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 (names, small girl, poet, I), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 names	nmod:poss
2	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 What	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 What	cop
4	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Where	cc
6	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	4 What	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 When	cc
8	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 What	conj
9	/	/	PUNCT	_	4 What	punct
10	And	and	CCONJ	_	11 How	cc
11	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 What	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 Why	cc
13	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 What	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 Who	cc
15	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 What	conj
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 lets	punct
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 keeps	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 girl	det
19	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 girl	amod
20	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 keeps	nsubj
21	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 What	parataxis
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 Hows	punct
23	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 million	compound
24	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 Hows	nummod
25	Hows	how	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 keeps	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 Wheres	punct
27	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 million	compound
28	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 Wheres	nummod
29	Wheres	where	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 Hows	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 Whys	punct
31	/	/	PUNCT	_	34 million	punct
32	And	and	CCONJ	_	34 million	cc
33	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 million	compound
34	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 Whys	nummod
35	Whys	why	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 Hows	conj
36	!	!	PUNCT	_	25 Hows	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 keeps	punct
38	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 poet	det
39	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 lets	nsubj
40	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 keeps	conj
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 rest	nmod:poss
42	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	44 rest	nummod
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	44 rest	punct
44	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 lets	xcomp
45	from	from	ADP	_	46 nine	case
46	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	44 rest	nmod
47	till	till	ADP	_	48 five	case
48	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	46 nine	nmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 busy	punct
50	/	/	PUNCT	_	54 busy	punct
51	For	for	SCONJ	_	54 busy	mark
52	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	54 busy	nsubj
53	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	54 busy	cop
54	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 rest	parataxis
55	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	58 As	advmod
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 As	punct
57	/	/	SYM	_	58 As	punct
58	As	as	ADV	_	54 busy	advmod
59	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	58 As	fixed
60	as	as	ADP	_	58 As	fixed
61	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 As	nsubj
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 lunch	punct
63	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 breakfast	nmod
64	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 tea	punct
65	and	and	CCONJ	_	66 tea	cc
66	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 breakfast	conj
67	,	,	PUNCT	_	73 men	punct
68	/	/	PUNCT	_	73 men	punct
69	For	for	ADP	_	73 men	case
70	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	73 men	nsubj
71	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	73 men	cop
72	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	73 men	amod
73	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	61 breakfast	appos
74	.	.	PUNCT	_	73 men	punct
75	"	"	PUNCT	_	44 rest	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	bubbles's names			tree rules
2	keep in a quote	present	a small girl	million Hows and million Wheres and million Whys		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent how=Theme
3	let in a quote	present	the poet	poet's six rest from nine till five		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	I		busy property	tree rules
5	is	present	breakfast		for hungry men	tree rules
6	name		bubbles = bubble			nom name «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:19.

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 ×5, 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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