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

The Python told him to "pull as hard as ever you can" or the Crocodile, "your acquaintance in the large-pattern leather ulster", would jerk him into the river "before you can say Jack Robinson" (very quickly); an "ulster" is a long overcoat.

Who acts: Python, acquaintance, Child, ulster, your · What happens: tell, pull, jerk, say, be, acquaint · To what, where: Child, river, Jack, long overcoat, pattern leather ulster · 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 (Python, acquaintance, Child, ulster), 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 Python	det
2	Python	Python	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	to	to	PART	_	7 pull	mark
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 pull	punct
7	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	xcomp
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 hard	advmod
9	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 pull	advmod
10	as	as	ADP	_	11 ever	case
11	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 pull	advmod
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 can	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 pull	advcl
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 Crocodile	punct
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 Crocodile	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Crocodile	det
17	Crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 can	appos
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Crocodile	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 acquaintance	punct
20	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 acquaintance	nmod:poss
21	acquaintance	acquaintance	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Crocodile	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	28 ulster	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 ulster	det
24	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 pattern	amod
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 large	punct
26	pattern	pattern	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 ulster	compound
27	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 ulster	compound
28	ulster	ulster	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 acquaintance	nmod
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 acquaintance	punct
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 jerk	punct
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 jerk	aux
32	jerk	jerk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 acquaintance	acl:relcl
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 jerk	obj
34	into	into	ADP	_	36 river	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 river	det
36	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 jerk	obl
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 river	punct
38	before	before	SCONJ	_	41 say	mark
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 say	nsubj
40	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 say	aux
41	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 jerk	advcl
42	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 say	obj
43	Robinson	Robinson	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 Jack	flat
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	41 say	punct
45	(	(	PUNCT	_	47 quickly	punct
46	very	very	ADV	_	47 quickly	advmod
47	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	41 say	advmod
48	)	)	PUNCT	_	47 quickly	punct
49	;	;	PUNCT	_	52 ulster	punct
50	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 ulster	det
51	"	"	PUNCT	_	52 ulster	punct
52	ulster	ulster	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 overcoat	nsubj
53	"	"	PUNCT	_	52 ulster	punct
54	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	57 overcoat	cop
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 overcoat	det
56	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 overcoat	amod
57	overcoat	overcoat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	parataxis
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the Python		Child			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	pull not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the Python not said here				hard property	vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	jerk	would	your acquaintance in the pattern leather ulster not said here	Child		the river		vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent he=Result
4	say speech: assert in a quote	can	Child	Jack			quickly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent jack=Topic
5	is a	present	a ulster	a long overcoat				tree rules
6	acquaint in a quote		your			the pattern leather ulster		nom acquaintance «cognition transitive»: poss=agent in=place

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:5.

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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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