Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 1
IN the High and Far-Off Times the Elephant, O Best Beloved, had no trunk.
What happens: have · To what, where: trunk
This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Elephant’s Child. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | IN | in | ADP | _ | 3 High | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 High | det |
| 3 | High | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 had | cc |
| 5 | Far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 had | advmod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Far | punct |
| 7 | Off | off | ADP | _ | 8 Times | case |
| 8 | Times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 Far | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Elephant | det |
| 10 | Elephant | Elephant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Times | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Beloved | punct |
| 12 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 14 Beloved | vocative |
| 13 | Best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 Beloved | amod |
| 14 | Beloved | Beloved | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Elephant | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Far | punct |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 High | conj |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 trunk | det |
| 18 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 had | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 High | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | no trunk | far property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trunk=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.
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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