Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 2 (the tug-of-war and the trunk), sentence 7

His nose became "nearly five feet long", and he said "This is too butch for be!" (This is too much for me!).

Who acts: nose, This · What happens: become, say, be · 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 (nose, This), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 nose	nmod:poss
2	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 became	nsubj
3	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 long	punct
5	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	6 five	advmod
6	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 feet	nummod
7	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 long	obl:unmarked
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 became	xcomp
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 long	punct
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 became	conj
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 butch	punct
15	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 butch	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 butch	cop
17	too	too	ADV	_	18 butch	advmod
18	butch	butch	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 said	ccomp
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 be	case
20	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 butch	xcomp
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 butch	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 butch	punct
23	(	(	PUNCT	_	27 much	punct
24	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 much	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 much	cop
26	too	too	ADV	_	27 much	advmod
27	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 said	ccomp
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 me	case
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 much	obl
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	27 much	punct
31	)	)	PUNCT	_	27 much	punct
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 became	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	become	past	Child's nose	long property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	say speech: express	past	nose		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	This	butch property	tree rules
4	be in a quote	infinitive	This not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	present	This	for me; much property	tree rules

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:7.

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): R7-rel-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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