--- title: The Snake wraps himself round the Elephant's Child's back legs and p… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elepha… · tree and pragmatics description: The Snake wraps himself round the Elephant's Child's back legs and pulls too, and at last the Crocodile lets go with a "plop" heard all along the Limpopo; the Elephant's Child says thank you and cools his sore nose in the river, waiting for it to shrink. Who acts: Snake, 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 (Snake, Crocodile, Child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:080-justso-elephants-child-2.lesson:1 # text = The Snake wraps himself round the Elephant's Child's back legs and pulls too, and at last the Crocodile lets go with a "plop" heard all along the Limpopo; the Elephant's Child says thank you and cools his sore nose in the river, waiting for it to shrink. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 080-justso-elephants-child-2.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 wraps wrap VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 3 obj _ _ 5 round round ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 Child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod:poss _ _ 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 back back ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 pulls pull VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 15 too too ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 18 at at ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 last last NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Crocodile crocodile PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 22 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 23 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 27 plop plop NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 29 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 acl _ _ 30 all all ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 along along ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 Limpopo limpopo NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 34 ; ; PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 Elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod:poss _ _ 37 's 's PART POS _ 36 case _ _ 38 Child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 40 thank thank VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 ccomp _ _ 41 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 cools cool VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 conj _ _ 44 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 45 sore sore ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ _ 47 in in ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ _ 50 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 51 waiting wait VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 43 advcl _ _ 52 for for SCONJ IN _ 55 mark _ _ 53 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 55 nsubj _ _ 54 to to PART TO _ 55 mark _ _ 55 shrink shrink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 51 advcl _ _ 56 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wrap** | present | the Snake | Snake | | | | round the Elephant's Child's back legs | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | | 2 | **pull** | present | the Snake *not said here* | | | | | | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **let** | present | the Crocodile | | | last | | | tree rules | | 4 | **go** | infinitive | the Crocodile *not said here* | | | | | with a plop | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with plop=Beneficiary | | 5 | **hear** | participle | | a plop *not said here* | | | | along the Limpopo; all *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Elephant's Child | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **thank** *speech: thank* | present | | | you | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 8 | **cool** | present | | Child's sore nose | | the river | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent nose=Patient | | 9 | **wait** | gerund | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 10 | **shrink** | to-infinitive | Crocodile | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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. 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