Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 1: the Eldest Magician and the sea that will not behave, sentence 19
The Fisherman of the Moon is «spinning a fishing-line with which he hopes one day to catch the world», and the Rat of the Moon «always bites the old Fisherman's line as fast as it is made».
Who acts: Fisherman, place, Rat · What happens: spin, hope, catch, bite, make · To what, where: fishing line, world, line, Rat
This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 1: the Eldest Magician and the sea that will not behave» 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 (Fisherman, place, Rat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Fisherman | det |
| 2 | Fisherman | fisherman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 spinning | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Moon | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Moon | det |
| 5 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Fisherman | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 spinning | aux |
| 7 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 spinning | punct |
| 8 | spinning | spin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 line | det |
| 10 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 line | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 fishing | punct |
| 12 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spinning | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 which | case |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 hopes | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 hopes | nsubj |
| 16 | hopes | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 line | acl:relcl |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 day | nummod |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 catch | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 catch | mark |
| 20 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 hopes | xcomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 world | det |
| 22 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 catch | obj |
| 23 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 spinning | punct |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 bites | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 bites | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Rat | det |
| 27 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 bites | nsubj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Moon | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Moon | det |
| 30 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Rat | nmod |
| 31 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 33 bites | punct |
| 32 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 33 bites | advmod |
| 33 | bites | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 spinning | conj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Fisherman | det |
| 35 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 Fisherman | amod |
| 36 | Fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 line | nmod:poss |
| 37 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 36 Fisherman | case |
| 38 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 bites | obj |
| 39 | as | as | ADV | _ | 40 fast | advmod |
| 40 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 33 bites | advmod |
| 41 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 44 made | mark |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 made | nsubj:pass |
| 43 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 made | aux:pass |
| 44 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 fast | advcl |
| 45 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 33 bites | punct |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 spinning | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spin in a quote | present · progressive | the Fisherman of the Moon | a fishing line | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent line=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hope in a quote | present | place | with a fishing line | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | catch not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | place not said here | the world | day | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Theme | |||
| 4 | bite in a quote | present | the Rat of the Moon | the old Fisherman's line | always, fast property | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Patient | |||
| 5 | make in a quote | present · passive | Rat | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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, 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:090-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician.lesson:19.
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.
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