Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 80
So the Elephant’s Child went home across Africa frisking and whisking his trunk.
Who acts: Child · What happens: go, frisk, whisk · To what, where: Africa, trunk
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 (Child), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Elephant | det |
| 3 | Elephant | Elephant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Child | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 Elephant | case |
| 5 | Child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | home | home | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 8 | across | across | ADP | _ | 9 Africa | case |
| 9 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 10 | frisking | frisk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 went | advcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 whisking | cc |
| 12 | whisking | whisk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 frisking | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 trunk | nmod:poss |
| 14 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 whisking | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the Elephant's Child | Africa | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across africa=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | frisk | gerund | the Elephant's Child not said here | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | whisk | gerund | the Elephant's Child not said here | Child's trunk | vn shake-22.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trunk=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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