Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 77

‘I should like it very much indeed,’ said the Elephant’s Child.

Who acts: I · What happens: like, say · To what, where: schloop, Child · 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 (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	_	4 like	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 like	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 like	aux
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 like	obj
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADV	_	4 like	advmod
8	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	4 like	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Elephant	det
13	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Child	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 Elephant	case
15	Child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	should	I	schloop				indeed property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past		the Elephant's Child					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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