Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 38

‘Come hither, Little One,’ said the Crocodile, ‘for I am the Crocodile,’ and he wept crocodile-tears to show it was quite true.

Who acts: Crocodile, I, tail · What happens: come, say, be, weep, show · To what, where: crocodile tears · 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 (Crocodile, I, tail), 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 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
3	hither	hither	ADV	_	2 Come	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 One	punct
5	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 One	amod
6	One	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Come	vocative
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Crocodile	det
11	Crocodile	Crocodile	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 Crocodile	punct
14	for	for	ADP	_	18 Crocodile	case
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 Crocodile	nsubj
16	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 Crocodile	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Crocodile	det
18	Crocodile	Crocodile	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Crocodile	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 Crocodile	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 wept	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 wept	nsubj
23	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
24	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tears	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 crocodile	punct
26	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 wept	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 show	mark
28	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 wept	advcl
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 true	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 true	cop
31	quite	quite	ADV	_	32 true	advmod
32	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 show	ccomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	infinitive			Little One vocative; hither property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the Crocodile			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is	present	I		for the Crocodile	tree rules
4	weep	past	Crocodile	crocodile tears		vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tear=Theme
5	show	to-infinitive	Crocodile not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	tail		true property	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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