--- title: The Python told him to "pull as hard as ever you can" or the Crocodi… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elepha… · tree and pragmatics description: The Python told him to "pull as hard as ever you can" or the Crocodile, "your acquaintance in the large-pattern leather ulster", would jerk him into the river "before you can say Jack Robinson" (very quickly); an "ulster" is a long overcoat. Who acts: Python, acquaintance, Child, ulster. 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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 (Python, acquaintance, Child, ulster), 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:5 # text = The Python told him to "pull as hard as ever you can" or the Crocodile, "your acquaintance in the large-pattern leather ulster", would jerk him into the river "before you can say Jack Robinson" (very quickly); an "ulster" is a long overcoat. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Python Python PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 told tell 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 iobj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 7 pull pull VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 8 as as ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 7 advmod _ _ 10 as as ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 7 advmod _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 15 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 Crocodile crocodile NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 20 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 acquaintance acquaintance NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 24 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:amod 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ _ 26 pattern pattern NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 27 leather leather NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 ulster ulster NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 jerk jerk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 acl:relcl _ _ 33 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 into into ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 37 " " PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=36:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 38 before before SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 39 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 40 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 advcl _ _ 42 Jack Jack PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 43 Robinson Robinson PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 flat _ _ 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 41 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=42:punct 45 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 47 punct _ _ 46 very very ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ _ 47 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 48 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 47 punct _ _ 49 ; ; PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 50 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 51 " " PUNCT `` _ 52 punct _ _ 52 ulster ulster NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 nsubj _ _ 53 " " PUNCT '' _ 52 punct _ _ 54 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 57 cop _ _ 55 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 57 det _ _ 56 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 57 amod _ _ 57 overcoat overcoat NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 58 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the Python | | Child | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **pull** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Python *not said here* | | | | | hard *property* | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **jerk** | would | your acquaintance in the pattern leather ulster *not said here* | Child | | the river | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent he=Result | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | can | Child | Jack | | | | quickly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent jack=Topic | | 5 | **is a** | present | a ulster | a long overcoat | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **acquaint** *in a quote* | | your | | | the pattern leather ulster | | | nom acquaintance «cognition transitive»: poss=agent in=place | 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:080-justso-elephants-child-2.lesson:5`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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:…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/80-justso-elephants-child-2/4/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5:…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/80-justso-elephants-child-2/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/80-justso-elephants-child-2/)