Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 3

But there was one Elephant--a new Elephant--an Elephant’s Child--who was full of ‘satiable curtiosity, and that means he asked ever so many questions.

Who acts: Child, Elephant · What happens: be, mean, ask · To what, where: many questions · 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 (Child, Elephant), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 was	cc
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 means	nsubj
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 Elephant	nummod
5	Elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
6	--	--	PUNCT	_	9 Elephant	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 Elephant	det
8	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Elephant	amod
9	Elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Elephant	appos
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	14 Child	punct
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 Elephant	det
12	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Child	nmod:poss
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 Elephant	case
14	Child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Elephant	appos
15	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 full	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 full	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 full	cop
18	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Child	acl:relcl
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 curtiosity	case
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 curtiosity	punct
21	satiable	satiable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 curtiosity	amod
22	curtiosity	curtiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 full	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 means	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 means	cc
25	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 means	nsubj
26	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 asked	nsubj
28	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 means	ccomp
29	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	28 asked	advmod
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 many	advmod
31	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 questions	amod
32	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 asked	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 means	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	a Elephant's Child			of satiable curtiosity; full property	tree rules
2	mean	present					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	ask speech: ask	past	Elephant	many questions	ever		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient

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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