Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 57

‘’Scuse me,’ said the Elephant’s Child, ‘but my nose is badly out of shape, and I am waiting for it to shrink.

Who acts: nose, I · What happens: scuse, say, be, wait, shrink · To what, where: me, Child, shape · 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 (nose, I), 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	_	2 Scuse	punct
2	Scuse	scuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Scuse	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Scuse	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Scuse	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Elephant	det
8	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Child	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 Elephant	case
10	Child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 shape	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 shape	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 shape	cc
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 nose	nmod:poss
15	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 shape	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 shape	cop
17	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 shape	advmod
18	out	out	ADP	_	20 shape	case
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 shape	case
20	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Child	appos
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 waiting	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 waiting	cc
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 waiting	nsubj
24	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 waiting	aux
25	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 said	advcl
26	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 shrink	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 shrink	nsubj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 shrink	mark
29	shrink	shrink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 waiting	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	scuse	infinitive		me			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past		the Elephant's Child			tree rules
3	is	present	my nose		shape	badly property	tree rules
4	wait	present · progressive	I				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	shrink	to-infinitive	nose				vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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