--- title: The trusting Elephant's Child leans close, and the Crocodile grabs h… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elepha… · tree and pragmatics description: The trusting Elephant's Child leans close, and the Crocodile grabs him by the nose and says he will begin his dinner with Elephant's Child: the part ends with a funny squashed-nose cry for help and a real danger. Who acts: trusting Child, Crocodile, Child, part. 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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 (trusting Child, Crocodile, Child, part), 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:4 # text = The trusting Elephant's Child leans close, and the Crocodile grabs him by the nose and says he will begin his dinner with Elephant's Child: the part ends with a funny squashed-nose cry for help and a real danger. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 trusting trust VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 amod _ _ 3 Elephant elephant PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 Child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 leans lean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 close close ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Crocodile crocodile PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 12 grabs grab VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 13 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 by by ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 begin begin VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 ccomp _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 Elephant elephant PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 26 's 's PART POS _ 25 case _ _ 27 Child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 28 : : PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 ends end VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 34 funny funny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 35 squashed squash VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 amod _ _ 36 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ _ 37 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 cry cry NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 39 for for ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 conj _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **trust** | gerund | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **lean** | present | Elephant's trusting Child | | | | | close *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **grab** | present | the Crocodile | Child | | | | by the nose | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Crocodile *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **begin** | future | Child | Child's dinner | | | | with Elephant's Child | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.subeventuality»: agent=Agent dinner=Eventuality with child=Subeventuality | | 6 | **end** | present | the part | | | | | with a funny nose cry for help and a real danger | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with cry=Subeventuality | | 7 | **squash** | participle | | | | | | | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: 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:4`. **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): R8-pos-agree ×3. **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:…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/79-justso-elephants-child-1/3/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5:…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/79-justso-elephants-child-1/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/79-justso-elephants-child-1/)