Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 2 (the tug-of-war and the trunk), sentence 9

"At last the Crocodile let go of the Elephant's Child's nose with a plop that you could hear all up and down the Limpopo."

Who acts: last Crocodile, you · What happens: let, go, hear · To what, where: plop

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 (last Crocodile, you), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct
2	At	at	ADP	_	5 Crocodile	case
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Crocodile	amod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Crocodile	det
5	Crocodile	crocodile	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 let	nsubj
6	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp
8	of	of	ADP	_	14 nose	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Elephant	det
10	Elephant	elephant	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Child	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Elephant	case
12	Child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 nose	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 Child	case
14	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	obl
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 plop	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 plop	det
17	plop	plop	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 let	obl
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 hear	obj
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 hear	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 hear	aux
21	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 plop	acl:relcl
22	all	all	ADV	_	23 up	advmod
23	up	up	ADV	_	21 hear	advmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 Limpopo	cc
25	down	down	ADP	_	23 up	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Limpopo	det
27	Limpopo	limpopo	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 up	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	infinitive	the last Crocodile		with a plop	tree rules
2	go in a quote	infinitive	the last Crocodile not said here		of the Elephant's Child's nose	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of nose=Initial_Location
3	hear in a quote	could	you	a plop		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus

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:9.

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, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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