Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 42

Then the Elephant’s Child put his head down close to the Crocodile’s musky, tusky mouth, and the Crocodile caught him by his little nose, which up to that very week, day, hour, and minute, had been no bigger than a boot, though much more useful.

Who acts: Child, Crocodile, little nose · What happens: put down, catch, minute, not be, be · To what, where: head, Child

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, Crocodile, little nose), 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 put	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 put	nsubj
6	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 head	nmod:poss
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obj
9	down	down	ADV	_	6 put	advmod
10	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 musky	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	15 musky	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Crocodile	det
13	Crocodile	Crocodile	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 musky	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 Crocodile	case
15	musky	musky	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 mouth	punct
17	tusky	tusky	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 mouth	compound
18	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 musky	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 caught	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 caught	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Crocodile	det
22	Crocodile	Crocodile	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 caught	nsubj
23	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 put	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 caught	obj
25	by	by	ADP	_	28 nose	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 nose	nmod:poss
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 nose	amod
28	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 caught	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 minute	punct
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 minute	nsubj
31	up	up	ADP	_	30 which	compound:prt
32	to	to	ADP	_	35 week	case
33	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 week	det
34	very	very	ADV	_	35 week	advmod
35	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 which	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 day	punct
37	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 week	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 hour	punct
39	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 week	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 minute	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 minute	cc
42	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 nose	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 bigger	punct
44	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 bigger	aux
45	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	47 bigger	cop
46	no	no	ADV	_	47 bigger	advmod
47	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 caught	parataxis
48	than	than	ADP	_	50 boot	case
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 boot	det
50	boot	boot	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 bigger	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 useful	punct
52	though	though	ADV	_	53 much	advmod
53	much	much	ADV	_	54 more	advmod
54	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	55 useful	advmod
55	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 bigger	conj
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	put down	past	the Elephant's Child	Child's head	then	to the Crocodile's musky and tusky mouth; down property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent head=Goal
2	catch	past	the Crocodile	Child		by Crocodile's little nose	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	minute		Crocodile's little nose				tree rules
4	not is	past · perfect				than a boot; big property	tree rules
5	be						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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