Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 14
Then everybody said, ‘Hush!’ in a loud and dretful tone, and they spanked him immediately and directly, without stopping, for a long time.
Who acts: everybody, questions · What happens: say, spank, stop · To what, where: loud tone, Elephant · 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 (everybody, questions), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Hush | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Hush | punct |
| 6 | Hush | hush | INTJ | _ | 3 said | obj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 Hush | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Hush | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 tone | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 tone | det |
| 11 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tone | amod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 dretful | cc |
| 13 | dretful | dretful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 loud | conj |
| 14 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 spanked | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 spanked | cc |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 spanked | nsubj |
| 18 | spanked | spank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 spanked | obj |
| 20 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 18 spanked | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 directly | cc |
| 22 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 20 immediately | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 stopping | punct |
| 24 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 25 stopping | mark |
| 25 | stopping | stop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 spanked | advcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 time | punct |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 time | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 time | det |
| 29 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 time | amod |
| 30 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stopping | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | everybody | a loud tone | then | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent hush=Theme in tone=Manner | |||
| 2 | spank | past | questions = question | Elephant | immediately property | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 3 | stop | gerund | questions = question not said here | time | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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