Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 34

Then the Crocodile winked the other eye, and lifted half his tail out of the mud; and the Elephant’s Child stepped back most politely, because he did not wish to be spanked again.

Who acts: Crocodile, Child · What happens: wink, lift, step back, not wish, spank · To what, where: other eye, tail, mud, most

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 (Crocodile, Child), 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	4 winked	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Crocodile	det
3	Crocodile	Crocodile	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 winked	nsubj
4	winked	wink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 eye	det
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 eye	amod
7	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 winked	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lifted	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 lifted	cc
10	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 winked	conj
11	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	13 tail	det:predet
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 tail	nmod:poss
13	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lifted	obj
14	out	out	ADP	_	17 mud	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 mud	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 mud	det
17	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lifted	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 stepped	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 stepped	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Elephant	det
21	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Child	nmod:poss
22	’s	's	PART	_	21 Elephant	case
23	Child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stepped	nsubj
24	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 winked	conj
25	back	back	ADV	_	24 stepped	advmod
26	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 stepped	obl
27	politely	politely	ADV	_	26 most	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 wish	punct
29	because	because	SCONJ	_	33 wish	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 wish	nsubj
31	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 wish	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 wish	advmod
33	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 stepped	advcl
34	to	to	PART	_	36 spanked	mark
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 spanked	aux:pass
36	spanked	spank	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 wish	xcomp
37	again	again	ADV	_	36 spanked	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 winked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	wink	past	the Crocodile	the other eye		then	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
2	lift	past	the Crocodile not said here	Crocodile's tail	the mud		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tail=Theme out mud=Destination
3	step back	past	the Elephant's Child	most			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not wish	past · do-support	Child				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	spank not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	Child not said here			again	vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»

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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