Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 24
The first thing that he found was a Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake curled round a rock.
Who acts: Crocodile, first thing · What happens: find, be, curl · To what, where: first thing, Bi Coloured Python Rock Snake, rock
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, first thing), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 thing | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 thing | amod |
| 3 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Snake | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 found | obj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 found | nsubj |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thing | acl:relcl |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 Snake | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 Snake | det |
| 9 | Bi | bi | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Snake | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Bi | punct |
| 11 | Coloured | coloured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Snake | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Python | punct |
| 13 | Python | python | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Snake | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Python | punct |
| 15 | Rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Snake | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Rock | punct |
| 17 | Snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 18 | curled | curl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 Snake | acl |
| 19 | round | round | ADP | _ | 21 rock | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 rock | det |
| 21 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 curled | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 Snake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Crocodile | the first thing | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the first thing | a Bi Coloured Python Rock Snake | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | curl | participle | a Bi Coloured Python Rock Snake not said here | a rock | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round rock=Destination |
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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