--- title: The Elephant's Child "sat back on his little haunches, and pulled, a… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elepha… · tree and pragmatics description: The Elephant's Child "sat back on his little haunches, and pulled, and pulled, and pulled, and his nose began to stretch", while the Crocodile "threshed his tail like an oar"; "and it hurt him hijjus!" (hideously, terribly). Who acts: Child, nose, Crocodile. 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(hideously, terribly). **Who acts:** Child, nose, Crocodile · **What happens:** sit back, pull, begin, stretch, thresh, hurt · **To what, where:** little haunches, tail, Child This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 2 (the tug-of-war and the trunk)» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Child, nose, Crocodile), 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:6 # text = The Elephant's Child "sat back on his little haunches, and pulled, and pulled, and pulled, and his nose began to stretch", while the Crocodile "threshed his tail like an oar"; "and it hurt him hijjus!" (hideously, terribly). # 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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×4 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Elephant elephant PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 Child child PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 6 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 back back ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 haunches haunch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 pulled pull VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 pulled pull VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 pulled pull VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 stretch stretch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 while while SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:mark 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 Crocodile crocodile PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=34:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 33 " " PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 34 threshed thresh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 35 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 like like ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 oar oar NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=39:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 41 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 42 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 44 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 45 hurt hurt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 46 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 obj _ _ 47 hijjus hijjus ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 48 ! ! PUNCT . _ 47 punct _ _ 49 " " PUNCT '' _ 45 punct _ _ 50 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 51 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=53:punct 51 hideously hideously ADV RB _ 53 advmod _ _ 52 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 53 terribly terribly ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=45:parataxis 54 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 53 punct _ _ 55 . . 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 | **sit back** *in a quote* | past | the Elephant's Child | | | Child's little haunches | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on haunch=Location | | 2 | **pull** *in a quote* | past | the Elephant's Child *not said here* | | | | | | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **pull** *in a quote* | past | the Elephant's Child *not said here* | | | | | | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **pull** *in a quote* | past | the Elephant's Child *not said here* | | | | | | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **begin** *in a quote* | past | Child's nose | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **stretch** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Child's nose *not said here* | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **thresh** *in a quote* | past | the Crocodile | Child's tail | | | | like a oar | tree rules | | 8 | **hurt** *in a quote* | past | Crocodile | Child | | | | hijjus, terribly *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:080-justso-elephants-child-2.lesson:6`. **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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×4. **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:…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/80-justso-elephants-child-2/5/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5:…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/80-justso-elephants-child-2/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/80-justso-elephants-child-2/)