Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 60

The Elephant’s Child sat there for three days waiting for his nose to shrink.

Who acts: Child, three days · What happens: sit, wait, shrink

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, three days), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Elephant	det
2	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Child	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 Elephant	case
4	Child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	nsubj
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 sat	advmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 days	case
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 days	nummod
9	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sat	obl
10	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 days	acl
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 nose	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 nose	nmod:poss
13	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 waiting	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 shrink	mark
15	shrink	shrink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 waiting	advcl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the Elephant's Child	there	day		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wait	gerund	three days not said here			for Child's nose	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	shrink	to-infinitive	three days not said here				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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