Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 86

The rest of the time he picked up the melon rinds that he had dropped on his way to the Limpopo--for he was a Tidy Pachyderm.

Who acts: rest, Child · What happens: pick up, rind, drop, be · To what, where: melon, way

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 (rest, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rest	det
2	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rinds	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 time	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rest	nmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 picked	nsubj
7	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 time	acl:relcl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 picked	compound:prt
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 melon	det
10	melon	melon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 picked	obj
11	rinds	rind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 dropped	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 dropped	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 dropped	aux
15	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 rinds	ccomp
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 way	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 way	nmod:poss
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dropped	obl
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 Limpopo	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Limpopo	det
21	Limpopo	Limpopo	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 way	nmod
22	--	--	PUNCT	_	28 Pachyderm	punct
23	for	for	ADP	_	28 Pachyderm	case
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 Pachyderm	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 Pachyderm	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 Pachyderm	det
27	Tidy	tidy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Pachyderm	amod
28	Pachyderm	pachyderm	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dropped	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 rinds	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pick up	past	rest	the melon			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent melon=Topic
2	rind	present	the rest of the time				tree rules
3	drop	past · perfect	rest		Child's way to the Limpopo		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on way=Trajectory
4	is	past	Child			for a Tidy Pachyderm	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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