Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 79

‘Thank you,’ said the Elephant’s Child, ‘I’ll remember that; and now I think I’ll go home to all my dear families and try.’

Who acts: I · What happens: thank, say, remember, think, go, try · To what, where: you, Child, dear families · 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	_	2 Thank	punct
2	Thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Thank	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Thank	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Elephant	det
8	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Child	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 Elephant	case
10	Child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 remember	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 remember	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 remember	nsubj
14	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 remember	aux
15	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 remember	mark
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 think	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 think	cc
19	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 think	advmod
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 think	nsubj
21	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Thank	parataxis
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 go	nsubj
23	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 go	aux
24	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 think	ccomp
25	home	home	ADV	_	24 go	advmod
26	to	to	ADP	_	30 families	case
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 families	det:predet
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 families	nmod:poss
29	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 families	amod
30	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 go	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 try	cc
32	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 go	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	present			you				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past		the Elephant's Child					tree rules
3	remember	future	I						vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	think speech: other	present	I				now		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	go	future	I			my dear families		home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to family=Initial_Location
6	try	infinitive	I not said here						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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