Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 78

‘Well,’ said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake, ‘you will find that new nose of yours very useful to spank people with.’

Who acts: you · What happens: say, find, spank · To what, where: Bi Coloured Rock Snake, people · 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 said	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Snake	det
7	Bi	bi	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Snake	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Bi	punct
9	Coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Snake	amod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 Python	punct
11	Python	python	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Rock	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 Python	punct
13	Rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Snake	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 Rock	punct
15	Snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 find	punct
17	‘	‘	SCONJ	_	20 find	mark
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 find	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 find	aux
20	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	conj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 useful	mark
22	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 nose	amod
23	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 useful	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 yours	case
25	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 nose	nmod
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 useful	advmod
27	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 find	ccomp
28	to	to	PART	_	29 spank	mark
29	spank	spank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 useful	advcl
30	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 spank	obj
31	with	with	ADP	_	29 spank	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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
2	find	future	you		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	spank	to-infinitive	you not said here	people	vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=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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