Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 13
He asked, ‘What does the Crocodile have for dinner?’
Who acts: Elephant, Crocodile · What happens: ask, have · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Elephant, Crocodile), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 4 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 5 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 have | obj |
| 6 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 have | aux |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Crocodile | det |
| 8 | Crocodile | Crocodile | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 have | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 asked | ccomp |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 dinner | case |
| 11 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 asked | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Elephant | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have | present · do-support | the Crocodile | for dinner | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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