Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3: the Moon pulls the sea, and how tides really work, sentence 8

He grumbles; the Magician calls him lazy and says something unkind about his children, and the Man answers: then let the Sea work for him twice a day for ever.

Who acts: Man, Magician · What happens: grumble, call, say, answer, let · To what, where: Man, something, Sea work · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3: the Moon pulls the sea, and how tides really work» 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 (Man, Magician), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grumbles	nsubj
2	grumbles	grumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 calls	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Magician	det
5	Magician	magician	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 calls	nsubj
6	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 grumbles	parataxis
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 calls	obj
8	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 calls	xcomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 says	cc
10	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 calls	conj
11	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 says	obj
12	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 something	amod
13	about	about	ADP	_	15 children	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 children	nmod:poss
15	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 unkind	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 answers	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 answers	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Man	det
19	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 answers	nsubj
20	answers	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 grumbles	conj
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 let	punct
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 let	advmod
23	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	20 answers	parataxis
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 work	det
25	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 work	compound
26	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 let	obj
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 let	obl
29	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	31 day	advmod
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 day	det
31	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 let	obl:unmarked
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 ever	case
33	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	23 let	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 grumbles	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	grumble speech: other	present	Man					vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	call	present	the Magician		Man		lazy property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	present	the Magician not said here	something				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic
4	answer speech: assert	present	the Man					vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	let	infinitive		the Sea work		then; day	for Man	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent work=Theme for he=Asset

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:092-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea.lesson:8.

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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. 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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