Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 29

Then the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake uncoiled himself very quickly from the rock, and spanked the Elephant’s Child with his scalesome, flailsome tail.

Who acts: Bi Coloured Rock Snake · What happens: uncoil, spank · To what, where: Snake, Child

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 (Bi Coloured Rock Snake), 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	12 uncoiled	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Snake	det
3	Bi	bi	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Snake	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Bi	punct
5	Coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Snake	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Python	punct
7	Python	python	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Rock	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Python	punct
9	Rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Snake	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Rock	punct
11	Snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 uncoiled	nsubj
12	uncoiled	uncoil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 uncoiled	obj
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 quickly	advmod
15	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	12 uncoiled	advmod
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 rock	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 rock	det
18	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 uncoiled	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 spanked	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 spanked	cc
21	spanked	spank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 uncoiled	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Elephant	det
23	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Child	nmod:poss
24	’s	's	PART	_	23 Elephant	case
25	Child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 spanked	obj
26	with	with	ADP	_	31 tail	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 tail	nmod:poss
28	scalesome	scalesome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 tail	amod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 scalesome	punct
30	flailsome	flailsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 tail	amod
31	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 spanked	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 uncoiled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	uncoil	past	the Bi Coloured Rock Snake	Snake			then	from the rock; quickly property	vn separate-23.1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient from rock=Co-Patient
2	spank	past	the Bi Coloured Rock Snake not said here	the Elephant's Child				with Child's scalesome flailsome tail	vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent child=Patient with tail=Instrument

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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