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title: The first thing that he found was a Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake cu… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: The first thing that he found was a Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake curled round a rock. Who acts: Crocodile, first thing. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Elephant’s Child, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 24

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The first thing that he found was a Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake curled round a rock.

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**Who acts:** Crocodile, first thing · **What happens:** find, be, curl · **To what, where:** first thing, Bi Coloured Python Rock Snake, rock

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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 (Crocodile, first thing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg2781:6:24
# text = The first thing that he found was a Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake curled round a rock.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	obj	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
9	Bi	bi	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Coloured	coloured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Python	python	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
18	curled	curl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	round	round	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | Crocodile | the first thing |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the first thing | a Bi Coloured Python Rock Snake |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **curl** | participle |  | a Bi Coloured Python Rock Snake *not said here* |  | a rock |  |  | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round rock=Destination |

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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.

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**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.

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