Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 2 (the tug-of-war and the trunk), sentence 6

The Elephant's Child "sat back on his little haunches, and pulled, and pulled, and pulled, and his nose began to stretch", while the Crocodile "threshed his tail like an oar"; "and it hurt him hijjus!" (hideously, terribly).

Who acts: Child, nose, Crocodile · What happens: sit back, pull, begin, stretch, thresh, hurt · To what, where: little haunches, tail, Child

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 (Child, nose, Crocodile), 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 Elephant	det
2	Elephant	elephant	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Child	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Elephant	case
4	Child	child	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 sat	nsubj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 sat	punct
6	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 sat	advmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	11 haunches	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 haunches	nmod:poss
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 haunches	amod
11	haunches	haunch	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sat	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pulled	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 pulled	cc
14	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sat	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 pulled	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 pulled	cc
17	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 pulled	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 pulled	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 pulled	cc
20	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 pulled	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 began	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 began	cc
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 nose	nmod:poss
24	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 began	nsubj
25	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sat	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 stretch	mark
27	stretch	stretch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 began	xcomp
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 stretch	punct
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 threshed	punct
30	while	while	SCONJ	_	34 threshed	mark
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Crocodile	det
32	Crocodile	crocodile	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 threshed	nsubj
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 threshed	punct
34	threshed	thresh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 stretch	advcl
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 tail	nmod:poss
36	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 threshed	obj
37	like	like	ADP	_	39 oar	case
38	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 oar	det
39	oar	oar	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 threshed	obl
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 threshed	punct
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 began	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 began	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 hurt	cc
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 hurt	nsubj
45	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sat	conj
46	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 hurt	obj
47	hijjus	hijjus	ADV	_	45 hurt	advmod
48	!	!	PUNCT	_	47 hijjus	punct
49	"	"	PUNCT	_	45 hurt	punct
50	(	(	PUNCT	_	51 hideously	punct
51	hideously	hideously	ADV	_	53 terribly	advmod
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 hideously	punct
53	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	45 hurt	advmod
54	)	)	PUNCT	_	53 terribly	punct
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sat	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit back in a quote	past	the Elephant's Child		Child's little haunches		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on haunch=Location
2	pull in a quote	past	the Elephant's Child not said here				vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	pull in a quote	past	the Elephant's Child not said here				vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	pull in a quote	past	the Elephant's Child not said here				vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	begin in a quote	past	Child's nose				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	stretch in a quote	to-infinitive	Child's nose not said here				vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	thresh in a quote	past	the Crocodile	Child's tail		like a oar	tree rules
8	hurt in a quote	past	Crocodile	Child		hijjus, terribly property	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient

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:6.

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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×4. 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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