Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 49
And the Crocodile floundered into the water, making it all creamy with great sweeps of his tail, and he pulled, and pulled, and pulled.
Who acts: Crocodile · What happens: flounder, make, pull · To what, where: water
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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2781:223): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 floundered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Crocodile | det |
| 3 | Crocodile | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 floundered | nsubj |
| 4 | floundered | flounder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 water | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 water | det |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 floundered | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 making | punct |
| 9 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 floundered | advcl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 making | obj |
| 11 | all | all | ADV | _ | 12 creamy | advmod |
| 12 | creamy | creamy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 making | xcomp |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 sweeps | case |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sweeps | amod |
| 15 | sweeps | sweep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 making | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 tail | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 tail | nmod:poss |
| 18 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sweeps | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 pulled | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 pulled | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 pulled | nsubj |
| 22 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 floundered | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 pulled | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 pulled | cc |
| 25 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 pulled | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 pulled | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 pulled | cc |
| 28 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 pulled | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 floundered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flounder | past | the Crocodile | the water | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | gerund | the Crocodile not said here | water | with great sweeps of Crocodile's tail; creamy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | |||
| 3 | pull | past | Crocodile | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | pull | past | Crocodile not said here | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | pull | past | Crocodile not said here | vn slide-11.2 «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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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