Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 51

Then the Elephant’s Child felt his legs slipping, and he said through his nose, which was now nearly five feet long, ‘This is too butch for be!’

Who acts: Child, legs, nose, This · What happens: feel, slip, say, be · To what, where: legs, 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 (Child, legs, nose, This), 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 felt	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 felt	nsubj
6	felt	feel	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 legs	nmod:poss
8	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 felt	obj
9	slipping	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 felt	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 felt	conj
14	through	through	ADP	_	16 nose	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 nose	nmod:poss
16	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 long	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 long	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 long	cop
20	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 long	advmod
21	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	22 five	advmod
22	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 feet	nummod
23	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 long	obl:unmarked
24	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 nose	amod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 butch	punct
26	‘	'	PUNCT	_	30 butch	punct
27	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 butch	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 butch	cop
29	too	too	ADV	_	30 butch	advmod
30	butch	butch	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 said	ccomp
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 be	case
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 butch	cop
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	30 butch	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	30 butch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	the Elephant's Child	Child's legs		then		tree rules
2	slip	gerund	Child's legs not said here					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	say speech: assert	past	Child		Child's nose			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	Child's nose			now	five feet obl:unmarked; long property	tree rules
5	is	present	This				butch property	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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