Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 58
‘Then you will have to wait a long time, said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake.
Who acts: you · What happens: have, wait, say · To what, where: Bi Coloured Rock 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 have | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 have | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | aux |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 wait | mark |
| 7 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 have | xcomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 time | amod |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wait | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Snake | det |
| 14 | Bi | bi | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Snake | amod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Bi | punct |
| 16 | Coloured | coloured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Snake | amod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Python | punct |
| 18 | Python | python | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Rock | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Python | punct |
| 20 | Rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Snake | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Rock | punct |
| 22 | Snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | future | you | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wait | to-infinitive | you not said here | time | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Bi Coloured Rock 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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