Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 1

BEFORE the High and Far-Off Times, O my Best Beloved, came the Time of the Very Beginnings; and that was in the days when the Eldest Magician was getting Things ready.

Who acts: that, Eldest Magician · What happens: come, be, get · To what, where: Things

This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Crab That Played With the Sea. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, Eldest Magician), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	BEFORE	before	SCONJ	_	3 High	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 High	det
3	High	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 came	advcl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Far	cc
5	Far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 High	conj
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Far	punct
7	Off	off	ADP	_	8 Times	case
8	Times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 Far	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Beloved	punct
10	O	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	13 Beloved	case
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 Beloved	nmod:poss
12	Best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 Beloved	amod
13	Beloved	Beloved	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 High	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 High	punct
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Time	det
17	Time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 Beginnings	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Beginnings	det
20	Very	very	ADV	_	21 Beginnings	advmod
21	Beginnings	Beginning	PROPN	Number=Plur	17 Time	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 days	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 days	cc
24	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 days	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 days	cop
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 days	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 days	det
28	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 came	obl:unmarked
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	34 getting	advmod
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Magician	det
31	Eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	32 Magician	amod
32	Magician	Magician	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 getting	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 getting	aux
34	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 days	parataxis
35	Things	Thing	PROPN	Number=Plur	34 getting	obj
36	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 getting	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past			time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	that		in the days		tree rules
3	get	past · progressive	the Eldest Magician	Things		ready property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus

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.

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