Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 26
‘Have I seen a Crocodile?’ said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake, in a voice of dretful scorn.
Who acts: I · What happens: see, say · 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 (I), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 seen | punct |
| 2 | Have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 seen | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 seen | nsubj |
| 4 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Crocodile | det |
| 6 | Crocodile | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seen | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 seen | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 seen | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Snake | det |
| 11 | Bi | bi | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Snake | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Bi | punct |
| 13 | Coloured | coloured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Snake | amod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Python | punct |
| 15 | Python | python | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Rock | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Python | punct |
| 17 | Rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Snake | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Rock | punct |
| 19 | Snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 voice | punct |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 voice | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 voice | det |
| 23 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Snake | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 scorn | case |
| 25 | dretful | dretful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 scorn | amod |
| 26 | scorn | scorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 voice | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · perfect | I | a Crocodile | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crocodile=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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