--- title: The Crocodile caught him "by his little nose" and said "between his… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elepha… · tree and pragmatics description: The Crocodile caught him "by his little nose" and said "between his teeth" that "to-day I will begin with Elephant's Child!"; with his nose squeezed, the Elephant's Child cried "Led go! Who acts: Crocodile, Child. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Crocodile, Child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:079-justso-elephants-child-1.lesson:18 # text = The Crocodile caught him "by his little nose" and said "between his teeth" that "to-day I will begin with Elephant's Child!"; with his nose squeezed, the Elephant's Child cried "Led go! # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 079-justso-elephants-child-1.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Crocodile crocodile NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 caught catch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 14 between between ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 18 that that SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 20 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ _ 22 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 23 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 begin begin VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 ccomp _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 Elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod:poss _ _ 28 's 's PART POS _ 27 case _ _ 29 Child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 ! ! PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ 31 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 32 ; ; PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 36 squeezed squeeze VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 42 advcl _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 Elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod:poss _ _ 40 's 's PART POS _ 39 case _ _ 41 Child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 42 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj 43 " " PUNCT `` _ 44 punct _ _ 44 Led lead VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 conj _ _ 45 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=44:xcomp 46 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **catch** | past | the Crocodile | Child | | | | by Crocodile's little nose | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the Crocodile *not said here* | | | | | between Crocodile's teeth | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **begin** *in a quote* | future | the Crocodile *= crocodile* | | | | day | with Elephant's Child | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with child=Subeventuality | | 4 | **squeeze** | participle | the Elephant's Child *not said here* | | | | | with Crocodile's nose | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the Elephant's Child | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **lead** *in a quote* | past | the Elephant's Child *not said here* | | | | | | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | | 7 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:079-justso-elephants-child-1.lesson:18`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5:…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/79-justso-elephants-child-1/17/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5:…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/79-justso-elephants-child-1/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/79-justso-elephants-child-1/)