--- title: It never shrinks: it has become a real trunk, and soon he finds it c… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elepha… · tree and pragmatics description: It never shrinks: it has become a real trunk, and soon he finds it can swat flies, pull up grass and slap cool mud on his head, three "'Vantages" the Snake points out. Who acts: Crocodile, Child, Snake. 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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, Snake), 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:2 # text = It never shrinks: it has become a real trunk, and soon he finds it can swat flies, pull up grass and slap cool mud on his head, three "'Vantages" the Snake points out. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 3 advmod _ _ 3 shrinks shrink VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 become become VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 parataxis _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 trunk trunk NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 xcomp _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 15 advmod _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 finds find VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 swat swat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 ccomp _ _ 19 flies fly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 pull pull VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:advcl 22 up up ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=21:cc 25 slap slap VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 26 cool cool ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 mud mud NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 33 " " PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ _ 34 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ _ 35 Vantages vantage NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 appos _ _ 36 " " PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=39:det 38 Snake Snake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=39:compound 39 points point NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obl:unmarked _ _ 40 out out ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 41 . . 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 | **not** **shrink** | present | Crocodile | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **become** | present · perfect | Crocodile | a real trunk | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **find** | present | Child | | | | | out, soon *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **swat** | can | Crocodile | flies | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Patient | | 5 | **pull up** | infinitive | Crocodile *not said here* | grass | | | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Theme | | 6 | **slap** | infinitive | Crocodile *not said here* | cool mud | | | | on Child's head | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent mud=Instrument on head=Patient | | 7 | **point** | | the Snake | | | | | | 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. **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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