--- title: When they came back nobody spanked anybody any more; and ever since… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: When they came back nobody spanked anybody any more; and ever since that day, O Best Beloved, all the Elephants you will ever see, besides all those that you won’t, have trunks precisely like the trunk of the ‘satiable Elephant’s Child. Who acts: families, nobody, you. A sentence of «Just so stories --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/6/101/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Just so stories](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/) / [The Elephant’s Child](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/6/) / 101 # Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 101 When they came back nobody spanked anybody any more; and ever since that day, O Best Beloved, all the Elephants you will ever see, besides all those that you won’t, have trunks precisely like the trunk of the ‘satiable Elephant’s Child. **Who acts:** families, nobody, you · **What happens:** come back, spank, see, have · **To what, where:** anybody, Best Beloved, trunks This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Elephant’s Child. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (families, nobody, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2781:6:101 # text = When they came back nobody spanked anybody any more; and ever since that day, O Best Beloved, all the Elephants you will ever see, besides all those that you won’t, have trunks precisely like the trunk of the ‘satiable Elephant’s Child. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 4 back back ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 6 nsubj _ _ 6 spanked spank VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 anybody anybody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 6 obj _ _ 8 any any ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 12 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 15 advmod _ _ 13 since since ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 15 det _ _ 15 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 O o INTJ UH _ 19 vocative _ _ 18 Best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 19 amod _ _ 19 Beloved Beloved PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 23 det:predet _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 Elephants Elephant PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 25 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 27 advmod _ _ 27 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 besides besides ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 31 det:predet _ _ 31 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 27 obl _ _ 32 that that SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 wo will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 38 trunks trunk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obj _ _ 39 precisely precisely ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 40 like like ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 trunk trunk NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 45 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 satiable satiable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 Elephant Elephant PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ’s 's PART POS _ 47 case _ _ 49 Child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come back** | past | families *= family* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **spank** | past | nobody | anybody | | | day | | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anybody=Patient | | 3 | **see** | future | you | Best Beloved and all Elephants *not said here* | | | ever | besides Best Beloved and all Elephants | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beloved=Stimulus | | 4 | **have** | present | you *not said here* | trunks | | | | like the trunk of satiable Elephant's Child; precisely *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trunk=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. **Text:** «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 2781 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/6/100/) - next →: [sentence 102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/6/102/) - ↑ back to [The Elephant’s Child](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/6/)