Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 18

I am going to the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, to find out what the Crocodile has for dinner.’

Who acts: I, Crocodile · What happens: go, find out, have · To what, where: great greasy Limpopo River · 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 (I, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 going	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 going	aux
3	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	13 River	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 River	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 River	amod
7	grey	grey	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 green	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 grey	punct
9	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 great	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 River	punct
11	greasy	greasy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 River	amod
12	Limpopo	Limpopo	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 River	compound
13	River	River	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 going	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 set	punct
15	all	all	ADV	_	16 set	advmod
16	set	set	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 River	amod
17	about	about	ADP	_	21 trees	case
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 trees	case
19	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 trees	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 fever	punct
21	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 set	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 find	punct
23	to	to	PART	_	24 find	mark
24	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 going	parataxis
25	out	out	ADP	_	24 find	compound:prt
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 has	obj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Crocodile	det
28	Crocodile	Crocodile	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 has	nsubj
29	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 find	ccomp
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 dinner	case
31	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 has	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 going	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	go	present · progressive	I	the great greasy Limpopo River		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial_Location
2	find out	to-infinitive				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	present	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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