Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 100

At last things grew so exciting that his dear families went off one by one in a hurry to the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, to borrow new noses from the Crocodile.

Who acts: last things, dear families · What happens: grow, go off, borrow · To what, where: one, hurry, new noses

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: who acts (last things, dear families), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 things	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 things	amod
3	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grew	nsubj
4	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 exciting	advmod
6	exciting	exciting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grew	xcomp
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 went	mark
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 families	nmod:poss
9	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 families	amod
10	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 went	nsubj
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 exciting	advcl
12	off	off	ADP	_	13 one	case
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 went	obl
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 one	case
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 one	nmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 hurry	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 hurry	det
18	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 went	obl
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 banks	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 banks	det
21	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 hurry	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 grey	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 grey	det
24	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 grey	amod
25	grey	grey	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 banks	nmod
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 grey	punct
27	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 grey	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 River	punct
29	greasy	greasy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 River	amod
30	Limpopo	Limpopo	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 River	compound
31	River	River	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 green	parataxis
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 set	punct
33	all	all	ADV	_	34 set	advmod
34	set	set	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 River	amod
35	about	about	ADP	_	39 trees	case
36	with	with	ADP	_	39 trees	case
37	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 trees	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 fever	punct
39	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 set	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 borrow	punct
41	to	to	PART	_	42 borrow	mark
42	borrow	borrow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 set	conj
43	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 noses	amod
44	noses	nose	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 borrow	obj
45	from	from	ADP	_	47 Crocodile	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 Crocodile	det
47	Crocodile	Crocodile	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 borrow	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	past	last things			exciting property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go off	past	Child's dear families	one by one	a hurry to the banks of the great grey		tree rules
3	borrow	to-infinitive	Child's dear families not said here	new noses		from the Crocodile	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent nose=Theme from crocodile=Source

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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