Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 81

When he wanted fruit to eat he pulled fruit down from a tree, instead of waiting for it to fall as he used to do.

Who acts: Child, fruit · What happens: want, eat, pull down, wait, fall, use · To what, where: fruit, tree

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, fruit), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 wanted	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 eat	mark
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fruit	acl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 pulled	nsubj
8	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 eat	ccomp
9	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pulled	obj
10	down	down	ADP	_	8 pulled	compound:prt
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 tree	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 tree	det
13	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pulled	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 waiting	punct
15	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	17 waiting	mark
16	of	of	ADP	_	15 instead	fixed
17	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 wanted	advcl
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 fall	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 fall	nsubj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 fall	mark
21	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 waiting	advcl
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 used	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 used	nsubj
24	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 fall	advcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 do	mark
26	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 used	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	want	past	Child	fruit		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fruit=Theme
2	eat	to-infinitive	Child not said here	fruit not said here		tree rules
3	pull down	past	Child	fruit	a tree	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent fruit=Theme from tree=Initial_Location
4	wait	gerund	Child not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	fall	to-infinitive	fruit			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	use	past	Child			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	do	to-infinitive	Child not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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