Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 32

But it was really the Crocodile, O Best Beloved, and the Crocodile winked one eye--like this!

Who acts: rind, Crocodile · What happens: be, wink · To what, where: Crocodile, one eye

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 (rind, Crocodile), 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	_	6 Crocodile	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 Crocodile	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Crocodile	cop
4	really	really	ADV	_	6 Crocodile	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Crocodile	det
6	Crocodile	Crocodile	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Beloved	punct
8	O	o	INTJ	_	10 Beloved	vocative
9	Best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 Beloved	amod
10	Beloved	Beloved	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Crocodile	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 winked	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 winked	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Crocodile	det
14	Crocodile	Crocodile	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 winked	nsubj
15	winked	wink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Crocodile	acl:relcl
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 eye	nummod
17	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 winked	obj
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	20 this	punct
19	like	like	ADP	_	20 this	case
20	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 winked	obl
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 Crocodile	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	rind	the Crocodile					tree rules
2	wink	past	the Crocodile	one eye				like this	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient

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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