Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 84

When he felt lonely walking through Africa he sang to himself down his trunk, and the noise was louder than several brass bands.

Who acts: Child, noise · What happens: feel, walk, sing down, be · To what, where: Africa, trunk, Child

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, noise), 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 felt	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 felt	nsubj
3	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sang	advcl
4	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 felt	xcomp
5	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 felt	xcomp
6	through	through	ADP	_	7 Africa	case
7	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 walking	obl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sang	nsubj
9	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 himself	case
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 sang	obl
12	down	down	ADP	_	9 sang	compound:prt
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	9 sang	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 louder	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 louder	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 noise	det
18	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 louder	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 louder	cop
20	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 sang	advmod
21	than	than	ADP	_	24 bands	case
22	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 bands	amod
23	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bands	compound
24	bands	band	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 louder	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	feel	past	Child				lonely property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	walk	gerund	Child not said here			Africa		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through africa=Trajectory
3	sing down speech: express	past	Child	Child's trunk	Child			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent trunk=Topic to himself=Recipient
4	is	past	the noise				than several brass bands; loud property	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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