Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 91
Then he uncurled his trunk and knocked two of his dear brothers head over heels.
Who acts: Child · What happens: uncurl, knock · To what, where: trunk, two, heels
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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 uncurled | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 uncurled | nsubj |
| 3 | uncurled | uncurl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 trunk | nmod:poss |
| 5 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 uncurled | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 knocked | cc |
| 7 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 uncurled | conj |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 knocked | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 head | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 head | nmod:poss |
| 11 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 brothers | amod |
| 12 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 head | compound |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 two | nmod |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 heels | case |
| 15 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 knocked | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 uncurled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | uncurl | past | Child | Child's trunk | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | knock | past | Child not said here | two of Child's brothers head | heels | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent two=Theme over heel=Destination |
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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