Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 97

‘But it’s very useful,’ and he picked up his hairy uncle, the Baboon, by one hairy leg, and hove him into a hornet’s nest.

Who acts: dinner, Child · What happens: be, pick up, hove · To what, where: hairy uncle, Child, nest

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 (dinner, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 useful	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 useful	cc
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 useful	nsubj
4	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 useful	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 useful	advmod
6	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 useful	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 useful	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 picked	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 picked	nsubj
11	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 useful	conj
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 picked	compound:prt
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 uncle	nmod:poss
14	hairy	hairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 uncle	amod
15	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 picked	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Baboon	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Baboon	det
18	Baboon	Baboon	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 uncle	appos
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 leg	punct
20	by	by	ADP	_	23 leg	case
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 leg	nummod
22	hairy	hairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 leg	amod
23	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 picked	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hove	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 hove	cc
26	hove	hove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 useful	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 hove	obj
28	into	into	ADP	_	32 nest	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 hornet	det
30	hornet	hornet	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 nest	nmod:poss
31	’s	's	PART	_	30 hornet	case
32	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hove	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 useful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	dinner			useful property	tree rules
2	pick up	past	Child	Child's hairy uncle		by one hairy leg	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent uncle=Topic
3	hove	infinitive	dinner not said here	Child	a hornet's nest		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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