Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 41

‘Come hither, Little One,’ said the Crocodile, ‘and I’ll whisper.’

Who acts: Crocodile, I · What happens: come, say, whisper · 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), 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	_	13 ‘	punct
13	‘	‘	INTJ	_	11 Crocodile	discourse
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 whisper	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 whisper	nsubj
16	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 whisper	aux
17	whisper	whisper	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 whisper	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 whisper	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	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	whisper speech: assert	future	I		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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