Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 98

Then that bad Elephant’s Child spanked all his dear families for a long time, till they were very warm and greatly astonished.

Who acts: Child, families · What happens: spank, be · To what, where: dear families

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, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 spanked	advmod
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 Elephant	nsubj
3	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Elephant	amod
4	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Child	nmod:poss
5	’s	's	PART	_	4 Elephant	case
6	Child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spanked	nsubj
7	spanked	spank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 families	det:predet
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 families	nmod:poss
10	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 families	amod
11	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 spanked	obj
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 time	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 time	det
14	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 time	amod
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spanked	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 warm	punct
17	till	till	SCONJ	_	21 warm	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 warm	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 warm	cop
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 warm	advmod
21	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 spanked	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 astonished	cc
23	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	24 astonished	advmod
24	astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 warm	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 spanked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	spank	past	bad Elephant's Child	Child's dear families	then; time		vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Patient
2	is	past	families = family			warm property	tree rules
3	be		families = family not said here			greatly property	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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