Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 22

Now you must know and understand, O Best Beloved, that till that very week, and day, and hour, and minute, this ‘satiable Elephant’s Child had never seen a Crocodile, and did not know what one was like.

Who acts: you, this, one · What happens: know, understand, not see, not know, be · To what, where: Crocodile · 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 (you, this, one), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 know	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 understand	cc
6	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 know	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Beloved	punct
8	O	o	INTJ	_	10 Beloved	vocative
9	Best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 Beloved	amod
10	Beloved	Beloved	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 know	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 week	punct
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 week	nsubj
13	till	till	ADP	_	16 week	case
14	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 week	det
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 week	advmod
16	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Beloved	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 day	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 day	cc
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Beloved	appos
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hour	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 hour	cc
22	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Beloved	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 minute	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 minute	cc
25	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Beloved	acl:relcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 seen	punct
27	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 seen	nsubj
28	‘	'	PUNCT	_	35 seen	punct
29	satiable	satiable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 Elephant	amod
30	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Child	nmod:poss
31	’s	's	PART	_	30 Elephant	case
32	Child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 seen	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 seen	aux
34	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	35 seen	advmod
35	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 Beloved	acl:relcl
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 Crocodile	det
37	Crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 seen	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 know	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 know	cc
40	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 know	aux
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 know	advmod
42	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 seen	conj
43	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	46 like	obj
44	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	46 like	nsubj
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 like	cop
46	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 know	ccomp
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	know	must	you		now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	understand	infinitive	you not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	not see	past · perfect	this	a Crocodile			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crocodile=Stimulus
4	not know	past · do-support	this not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	past	one			like property	tree rules

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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