Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 101

When they came back nobody spanked anybody any more; and ever since that day, O Best Beloved, all the Elephants you will ever see, besides all those that you won’t, have trunks precisely like the trunk of the ‘satiable Elephant’s Child.

Who acts: families, nobody, you · What happens: come back, spank, see, have · To what, where: anybody, Best Beloved, trunks

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 (families, nobody, you), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 spanked	advcl
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 spanked	nsubj
6	spanked	spank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 spanked	obj
8	any	any	ADV	_	9 more	advmod
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 spanked	advmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 day	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 day	cc
12	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	15 day	advmod
13	since	since	ADP	_	15 day	case
14	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 day	det
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spanked	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Beloved	punct
17	O	o	INTJ	_	19 Beloved	vocative
18	Best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 Beloved	amod
19	Beloved	Beloved	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 day	appos
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Elephants	punct
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 Elephants	det:predet
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Elephants	det
23	Elephants	Elephant	PROPN	Number=Plur	19 Beloved	conj
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 see	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 see	aux
26	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	27 see	advmod
27	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 Beloved	acl:relcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 those	punct
29	besides	besides	ADP	_	31 those	case
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 those	det:predet
31	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	27 see	obl
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 wo	mark
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 wo	nsubj
34	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 those	acl:relcl
35	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 wo	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 have	punct
37	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 see	conj
38	trunks	trunk	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 have	obj
39	precisely	precisely	ADV	_	37 have	advmod
40	like	like	ADP	_	42 trunk	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 trunk	det
42	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 have	obl
43	of	of	ADP	_	49 Child	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 Child	det
45	‘	'	PUNCT	_	49 Child	punct
46	satiable	satiable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 Elephant	amod
47	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 Child	nmod:poss
48	’s	's	PART	_	47 Elephant	case
49	Child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 trunk	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 spanked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come back	past	families = family				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	spank	past	nobody	anybody	day		vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anybody=Patient
3	see	future	you	Best Beloved and all Elephants not said here	ever	besides Best Beloved and all Elephants	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beloved=Stimulus
4	have	present	you not said here	trunks		like the trunk of satiable Elephant's Child; precisely 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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