Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 54

So he pulled, and the Elephant’s Child pulled, and the Crocodile pulled; but the Elephant’s Child and the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake pulled hardest; and at last the Crocodile let go of the Elephant’s Child’s nose with a plop that you could hear all up and down the Limpopo.

Who acts: Snake, Child, Crocodile, you · What happens: pull, let, go, hear · To what, where: hardest, last, plop

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 (Snake, Child, Crocodile, you), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 pulled	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pulled	nsubj
3	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pulled	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 pulled	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Elephant	det
7	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Child	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 Elephant	case
9	Child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pulled	nsubj
10	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pulled	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 pulled	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 pulled	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Crocodile	det
14	Crocodile	Crocodile	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 pulled	nsubj
15	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pulled	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 pulled	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 pulled	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Elephant	det
19	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Child	nmod:poss
20	’s	's	PART	_	19 Elephant	case
21	Child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 pulled	nsubj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 Snake	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Snake	det
24	Bi	bi	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 Coloured	amod
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 Bi	punct
26	Coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 Snake	amod
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 Coloured	punct
28	Python	python	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 Snake	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 Rock	punct
30	Rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 Snake	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 Rock	punct
32	Snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Child	conj
33	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pulled	conj
34	hardest	hard	ADJ	Degree=Sup	33 pulled	obj
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 let	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 let	cc
37	at	at	ADP	_	38 last	case
38	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 let	obl
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Crocodile	det
40	Crocodile	Crocodile	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 let	nsubj
41	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pulled	conj
42	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 let	xcomp
43	of	of	ADP	_	49 nose	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 Elephant	det
45	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 Child	nmod:poss
46	’s	's	PART	_	45 Elephant	case
47	Child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 nose	nmod:poss
48	’s	's	PART	_	47 Child	case
49	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 go	obl
50	with	with	ADP	_	52 plop	case
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 plop	det
52	plop	plop	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 nose	nmod
53	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	56 hear	obj
54	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	56 hear	nsubj
55	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 hear	aux
56	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 plop	acl:relcl
57	all	all	ADV	_	58 up	advmod
58	up	up	ADV	_	56 hear	advmod
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 Limpopo	cc
60	down	down	ADP	_	62 Limpopo	case
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 Limpopo	det
62	Limpopo	limpopo	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 up	conj
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pulled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pull	past	Snake				vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pull	past	the Elephant's Child				vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	pull	past	the Crocodile				vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	pull	past	the Elephant's Child and the Coloured Python Rock Snake	hardest			vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hard=Theme
5	let	past	the Crocodile		last		tree rules
6	go	infinitive	the Crocodile not said here			of the Elephant's Child's nose with a plop	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of nose=Initial_Location
7	hear	could	you	a plop			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus

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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