Just so stories, How the Camel Got His Hump, sentence 34

And the Camel said ‘Humph!’ again; but no sooner had he said it than he saw his back, that he was so proud of, puffing up and puffing up into a great big lolloping humph.

Who acts: Camel · What happens: say, see, be, puff up, lollop · To what, where: Humph, work, back, great big lolloping humph · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Camel Got His Hump. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Camel), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Camel	det
3	Camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 Humph	punct
6	Humph	Humph	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	obj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 Humph	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 Humph	punct
9	again	again	ADV	_	4 said	advmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 sooner	det
13	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 said	advmod
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 said	aux
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	obj
18	than	than	SCONJ	_	20 saw	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 saw	nsubj
20	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 said	ccomp
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 back	nmod:poss
22	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 saw	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 proud	punct
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 proud	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 proud	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 proud	cop
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 proud	advmod
28	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 saw	conj
29	of	of	SCONJ	_	31 puffing	mark
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 puffing	punct
31	puffing	puff	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 proud	advcl
32	up	up	ADP	_	31 puffing	compound:prt
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 puffing	cc
34	puffing	puff	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 puffing	conj
35	up	up	ADP	_	34 puffing	compound:prt
36	into	into	ADP	_	41 humph	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 humph	det
38	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 humph	amod
39	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 humph	amod
40	lolloping	lollop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	41 humph	amod
41	humph	humph	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 puffing	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Camel	Humph		again		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent humph=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	Camel	work			soon property	tree rules
3	see	past	Camel	Camel's back				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer back=Stimulus
4	is	past	Camel				proud property	tree rules
5	puff up	gerund	Camel not said here					vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
6	puff up	gerund	Camel not said here		a great big lolloping humph			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into humph=Location
7	lollop	gerund						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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.

Text: «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 2781 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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