Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 92

‘O Bananas!’ said they, ‘where did you learn that trick, and what have you done to your nose?’

Who acts: bananas, you · What happens: say, learn, do · To what, where: trick · 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 (bananas, you), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
2	O	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	3 Bananas	case
3	Bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 said	obl
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 Bananas	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 Bananas	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 learn	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 learn	punct
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 learn	advmod
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 learn	aux
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 learn	nsubj
13	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	conj
14	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 trick	det
15	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 learn	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 done	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 done	cc
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 done	obj
19	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 done	aux
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 done	nsubj
21	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 learn	ccomp
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 nose	case
23	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 nose	nmod:poss
24	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 done	obl
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	21 done	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	21 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	bananas = banana		of Bananas	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	learn	past · do-support	you	that trick		tree rules
3	do	present · perfect	you		to your nose	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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