Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 31

So he said good-bye very politely to the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake, and helped to coil him up on the rock again, and went on, a little warm, but not at all astonished, eating melons, and throwing the rind about, because he could not pick it up, till he trod on what he thought was a log of wood at the very edge of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees.

Who acts: father, throwing · What happens: say, help, coil up, go on, eat, throw · To what, where: good bye, Bi Coloured Python Rock Snake, father, rock, melons, rind · 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 (father, throwing), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 said	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bye	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 good	punct
6	bye	bye	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	obj
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 politely	advmod
8	politely	politely	ADV	_	19 Snake	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	19 Snake	case
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	19 Snake	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	3 said	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 helped	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 helped	cc
22	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 coil	mark
24	coil	coil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 helped	xcomp
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 coil	obj
26	up	up	ADP	_	24 coil	compound:prt
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 rock	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 rock	det
29	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 coil	obl
30	again	again	ADV	_	24 coil	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 went	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 went	cc
33	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	parataxis
34	on	on	ADV	_	33 went	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 warm	punct
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 little	det
37	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 warm	obl:unmarked
38	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 went	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 astonished	punct
40	but	but	CCONJ	_	44 astonished	cc
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 all	advmod
42	at	at	ADP	_	43 all	case
43	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	44 astonished	advmod
44	astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 eating	punct
46	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	44 astonished	advcl
47	melons	melon	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 eating	obj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 throwing	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 throwing	cc
50	throwing	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	72 log	csubj
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 rind	det
52	rind	rind	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 throwing	obj
53	about	about	ADV	_	50 throwing	advmod
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 pick	punct
55	because	because	SCONJ	_	59 pick	mark
56	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 pick	nsubj
57	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	59 pick	aux
58	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	59 pick	advmod
59	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 throwing	advcl
60	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 pick	obj
61	up	up	ADP	_	59 pick	compound:prt
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 trod	punct
63	till	till	SCONJ	_	65 trod	mark
64	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	65 trod	nsubj
65	trod	tread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 pick	conj
66	on	on	ADP	_	67 what	case
67	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	65 trod	obl
68	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	69 thought	nsubj
69	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	67 what	acl:relcl
70	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	72 log	cop
71	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	72 log	det
72	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	parataxis
73	of	of	ADP	_	74 wood	case
74	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	72 log	nmod
75	at	at	ADP	_	78 edge	case
76	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	78 edge	det
77	very	very	ADV	_	78 edge	advmod
78	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	72 log	nmod
79	of	of	ADP	_	88 River	case
80	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	88 River	det
81	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	88 River	amod
82	grey	grey	NOUN	Number=Sing	84 green	compound
83	-	-	PUNCT	_	82 grey	punct
84	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	81 great	conj
85	,	,	PUNCT	_	88 River	punct
86	greasy	greasy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	88 River	amod
87	Limpopo	Limpopo	PROPN	Number=Sing	88 River	compound
88	River	River	PROPN	Number=Sing	78 edge	nmod
89	,	,	PUNCT	_	91 set	punct
90	all	all	ADV	_	91 set	advmod
91	set	set	ADJ	Degree=Pos	88 River	amod
92	about	about	ADP	_	96 trees	case
93	with	with	ADP	_	96 trees	case
94	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	96 trees	compound
95	-	-	PUNCT	_	94 fever	punct
96	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	91 set	obl
97	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	father	good bye	the Bi Coloured Python Rock Snake				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent bye=Topic to snake=Recipient
2	help	past	father not said here						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	coil up	to-infinitive	father not said here	father		the rock	again		vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent he=Material
4	go on	past							vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	eat	gerund	father not said here	melons					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent melon=Patient
6	throw	gerund		the rind				about property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rind=Theme
7	not pick up	could	father	rind					vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
8	tread	past	father						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on what=Trajectory
9	think speech: other	past	father						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	is a	past	throwing	a log		the edge of the great greasy Limpopo River		of wood	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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