Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 39

Then the Elephant’s Child grew all breathless, and panted, and kneeled down on the bank and said, ‘You are the very person I have been looking for all these long days.

Who acts: Child, You, I · What happens: grow, pant, kneele down, say, be, look · To what, where: bank, person · 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 (Child, You, I), 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	6 grew	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Elephant	det
3	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Child	nmod:poss
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 Elephant	case
5	Child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grew	nsubj
6	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	all	all	ADV	_	8 breathless	advmod
8	breathless	breathless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grew	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 panted	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 panted	cc
11	panted	pant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 grew	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 kneeled	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 kneeled	cc
14	kneeled	kneele	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 panted	conj
15	down	down	ADP	_	14 kneeled	compound:prt
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 bank	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bank	det
18	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 kneeled	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grew	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 person	punct
22	‘	‘	SCONJ	_	27 person	mark
23	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 person	nsubj
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 person	cop
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 person	det
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 person	advmod
27	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 said	ccomp
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 looking	nsubj
29	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 looking	aux
30	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 looking	aux
31	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 person	acl:relcl
32	for	for	ADP	_	36 days	case
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 days	det:predet
34	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	36 days	det
35	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 days	amod
36	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 looking	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the Elephant's Child			then	breathless property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pant	participle	the Elephant's Child not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	kneele down	participle	the Elephant's Child not said here		the bank			tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	the Elephant's Child not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is a	present	You	the person				tree rules
6	look	present · perfect · progressive	I	the person not said here		day		vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme person=Attribute

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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