Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 43

‘I think, said the Crocodile--and he said it between his teeth, like this--‘I think to-day I will begin with Elephant’s Child!’

Who acts: I, Crocodile · What happens: think, say, begin · To what, where: head · 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 (I, Crocodile), 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	_	3 think	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 think	nsubj
3	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 think	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Crocodile	det
7	Crocodile	Crocodile	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
8	--	--	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	parataxis
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	obj
13	between	between	ADP	_	15 teeth	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 teeth	nmod:poss
15	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 said	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 this	punct
17	like	like	ADP	_	18 this	case
18	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 said	obl
19	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 think	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 think	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 think	nsubj
22	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 day	case
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 to	punct
25	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 think	obl
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 begin	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 begin	aux
28	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 think	ccomp
29	with	with	ADP	_	32 Child	case
30	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Child	nmod:poss
31	’s	's	PART	_	30 Elephant	case
32	Child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 begin	obl
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	I				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the Crocodile				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	Crocodile	head		between Crocodile's teeth; like this	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
4	think speech: other	present	I		day		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	begin	future	I			with Elephant's Child	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with child=Subeventuality

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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