Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 2 (the tug-of-war and the trunk), sentence 4

The poem after the story praises questions: Kipling's "six honest serving-men" are What, Where, When, How, Why and Who, and a small curious child keeps millions of them busy.

Who acts: poem, six honest serving men, small curious child · What happens: praise, be, keep · To what, where: questions, millions

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 (poem, six honest serving men, small curious child), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 poem	det
2	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 praises	nsubj
3	after	after	ADP	_	5 story	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 story	det
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 poem	nmod
6	praises	praise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 praises	obj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 praises	punct
9	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 men	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Kipling	case
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 men	punct
12	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 men	nummod
13	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 men	amod
14	serving	serving	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 men	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 serving	punct
16	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 What	nsubj
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 men	punct
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 What	cop
19	What	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 praises	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Where	punct
21	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 What	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 When	punct
23	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 What	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Why	punct
25	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 What	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Why	punct
27	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 What	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 Who	cc
29	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 What	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 keeps	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 keeps	cc
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 child	det
33	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 child	amod
34	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 child	amod
35	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 keeps	nsubj
36	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 praises	conj
37	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 keeps	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 them	case
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 millions	nmod
40	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 keeps	xcomp
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 praises	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	praise	present	the poem after the story	questions		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Theme
2	is a	present	Kipling's six honest serving men			tree rules
3	keep	present	a small curious child	millions of men	busy property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent million=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:4.

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, 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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