Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 62
For, O Best Beloved, you will see and understand that the Crocodile had pulled it out into a really truly trunk same as all Elephants have to-day.
Who acts: you, Crocodile, Elephants · What happens: see, understand, pull out, have · To what, where: nose, trunk same · 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, Crocodile, Elephants), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 5 Beloved | case |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Beloved | punct |
| 3 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 5 Beloved | vocative |
| 4 | Best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 Beloved | amod |
| 5 | Beloved | Beloved | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 see | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Beloved | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 see | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 see | aux |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 understand | cc |
| 11 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 see | conj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 pulled | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Crocodile | det |
| 14 | Crocodile | Crocodile | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 pulled | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 pulled | aux |
| 16 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 understand | ccomp |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 pulled | obj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 pulled | compound:prt |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 same | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 same | det |
| 21 | really | really | ADV | _ | 24 same | advmod |
| 22 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 24 same | advmod |
| 23 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 same | compound |
| 24 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 pulled | obl |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 have | mark |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 Elephants | det |
| 27 | Elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 have | nsubj |
| 28 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 pulled | advcl |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 day | case |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 to | punct |
| 31 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 have | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | future | you | for Best Beloved | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | understand | infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | pull out | past · perfect | the Crocodile | nose | a trunk same | tree rules | |||
| 4 | have | present | all Elephants | day | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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