Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 20

Then he went away, a little warm, but not at all astonished, eating melons, and throwing the rind about, because he could not pick it up.

Who acts: Crocodile · What happens: go away, eat, throw, not pick up · To what, where: melons, rind

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 (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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 warm	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 little	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 warm	obl:unmarked
8	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 went	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 astonished	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 astonished	cc
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 all	advmod
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 astonished	advmod
14	astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 went	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 eating	punct
16	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 astonished	advcl
17	melons	melon	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 eating	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 throwing	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 throwing	cc
20	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 went	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 rind	det
22	rind	rind	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 throwing	obj
23	about	about	ADV	_	20 throwing	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 pick	punct
25	because	because	SCONJ	_	29 pick	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 pick	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 pick	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 pick	advmod
29	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 throwing	advcl
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 pick	obj
31	up	up	ADP	_	29 pick	compound:prt
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go away	past	Crocodile		then	away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	gerund	Crocodile not said here	melons			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent melon=Patient
3	throw	gerund	Crocodile not said here	the rind		about property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rind=Theme
4	not pick up	could	Crocodile	rind			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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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