Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 44
At this, O Best Beloved, the Elephant’s Child was much annoyed, and he said, speaking through his nose, like this, ‘Led go!
Who acts: Best Beloved, Child · What happens: be, say, speak, lead, go · To what, where: this, nose · 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 (Best Beloved, Child), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 Beloved | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 this | punct |
| 4 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 6 Beloved | vocative |
| 5 | Best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 Beloved | amod |
| 6 | Beloved | Beloved | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 annoyed | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Beloved | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Elephant | det |
| 9 | Elephant | Elephant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Child | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 Elephant | case |
| 11 | Child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 annoyed | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 annoyed | cop |
| 13 | much | much | ADV | _ | 14 annoyed | advmod |
| 14 | annoyed | annoyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 said | nsubj |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 annoyed | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 speaking | punct |
| 20 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 this | csubj |
| 21 | through | through | ADP | _ | 23 nose | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 nose | nmod:poss |
| 23 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 speaking | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 this | punct |
| 25 | like | like | ADP | _ | 26 this | case |
| 26 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 said | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Led | punct |
| 28 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 Led | punct |
| 29 | Led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 said | conj |
| 30 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 Led | xcomp |
| 31 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 annoyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Best Beloved | annoyed property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Child | this | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | gerund | Child's nose | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | lead | participle | Child not said here | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result | |||||
| 5 | go | infinitive | Child not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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