Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 56
‘What are you doing that for?’ said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake.
Who acts: you · What happens: do, say · To what, where: that, Bi Coloured Python Snake · 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 (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 doing | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 doing | obj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 doing | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 doing | nsubj |
| 5 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 doing | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 doing | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 doing | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 doing | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Snake | det |
| 12 | Bi | bi | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Snake | amod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Bi | punct |
| 14 | Coloured | coloured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Snake | amod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Python | punct |
| 16 | Python | python | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Snake | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Rock | punct |
| 18 | Rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Python | appos |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Rock | punct |
| 20 | Snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present · progressive | you | that | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Bi Coloured Python Snake | 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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