Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 88
They were very glad to see him, and immediately said, ‘Come here and be spanked for your ‘satiable curtiosity.’
Who acts: families · What happens: be, see, say, come, spank · To what, where: Child · 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 (families), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 glad | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 glad | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 glad | advmod |
| 4 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 see | mark |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 glad | xcomp |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 see | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 10 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 11 said | advmod |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 glad | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Come | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 Come | punct |
| 14 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | parataxis |
| 15 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 Come | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 spanked | cc |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 spanked | aux:pass |
| 18 | spanked | spank | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 Come | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 curtiosity | case |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 curtiosity | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 curtiosity | punct |
| 22 | satiable | satiable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 curtiosity | amod |
| 23 | curtiosity | curtiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 spanked | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 glad | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | families = family | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | families = family not said here | Child | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | participle | immediately property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | come | infinitive | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | spank | infinitive · passive | for your satiable curtiosity | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP» |
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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