Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 33

‘’Scuse me,’ said the Elephant’s Child most politely, ‘but do you happen to have seen a Crocodile in these promiscuous parts?’

Who acts: you · What happens: scuse, say, happen, see · To what, where: me, Child, Crocodile, promiscuous parts · 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 (you), 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	_	2 Scuse	punct
2	Scuse	scuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Scuse	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Scuse	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Scuse	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Elephant	det
8	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Child	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 Elephant	case
10	Child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
11	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	12 politely	advmod
12	politely	politely	ADV	_	6 said	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 happen	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 happen	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 happen	cc
16	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 happen	aux
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 happen	nsubj
18	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
19	to	to	PART	_	21 seen	mark
20	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 seen	aux
21	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 happen	advcl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 Crocodile	det
23	Crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 seen	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 parts	case
25	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	27 parts	det
26	promiscuous	promiscuous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 parts	amod
27	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 seen	obl
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 happen	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 happen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	scuse	infinitive		me			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past		the Elephant's Child		politely property	tree rules
3	happen	present · do-support	you				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	to-infinitive · perfect	you not said here	a Crocodile	this promiscuous parts		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crocodile=Stimulus

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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