Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 85
He went especially out of his way to find a broad Hippopotamus (she was no relation of his), and he spanked her very hard, to make sure that the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake had spoken the truth about his new trunk.
Who acts: Child, Africa · What happens: go, find, be, spank, make, speak · To what, where: way, broad Hippopotamus, relation, Africa, Coloured Python Rock Snake · 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 (Child, Africa), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 7 way | advmod |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 way | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 way | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 way | nmod:poss |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 find | mark |
| 9 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 way | acl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 Hippopotamus | det |
| 11 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Hippopotamus | amod |
| 12 | Hippopotamus | Hippopotamus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 find | obj |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 relation | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 relation | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 relation | cop |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 relation | det |
| 17 | relation | relation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Hippopotamus | acl:relcl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 his | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 relation | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 19 his | punct |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 spanked | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 spanked | cc |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 spanked | nsubj |
| 24 | spanked | spank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 spanked | obj |
| 26 | very | very | ADV | _ | 27 hard | advmod |
| 27 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 spanked | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 make | punct |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 make | mark |
| 30 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 spanked | advcl |
| 31 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 make | xcomp |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 44 spoken | mark |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Snake | det |
| 34 | Bi | bi | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 Coloured | amod |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 Bi | punct |
| 36 | Coloured | coloured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 Snake | amod |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 Coloured | punct |
| 38 | Python | python | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 Snake | compound |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 Rock | punct |
| 40 | Rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 Snake | compound |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 Rock | punct |
| 42 | Snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 43 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 spoken | aux |
| 44 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 sure | ccomp |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 truth | det |
| 46 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 spoken | obj |
| 47 | about | about | ADP | _ | 50 trunk | case |
| 48 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 trunk | nmod:poss |
| 49 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 trunk | amod |
| 50 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 truth | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Child | Child's way | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out way=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | Child not said here | a broad Hippopotamus | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hippopotamus=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | Africa | Child's relation | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | spank | past | Child | Africa | hard property | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | |||
| 5 | make | to-infinitive | Child not said here | sure property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 6 | speak speech: other | past · perfect · passive | the Coloured Python Rock Snake | 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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