Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 72
‘Vantage number three!’ said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake.
What happens: 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: 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 | _ | 3 number | punct |
| 2 | Vantage | vantage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 number | compound |
| 3 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 number | flat |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 number | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 number | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Snake | det |
| 9 | Bi | bi | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Snake | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Bi | punct |
| 11 | Coloured | coloured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Snake | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Python | punct |
| 13 | Python | python | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Rock | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Python | punct |
| 15 | Rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Snake | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Rock | punct |
| 17 | Snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Bi Coloured Rock Snake | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent snake=Topic |
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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