Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 101

And the Man said, ‘If you choose, I will make a Magic, so that both the deep water and the dry ground will be a home for you and your children--so that you shall be able to hide both on the land and in the sea.’

Who acts: Man, you, I, dry ground · What happens: say, choose, make, be, hide · To what, where: Magic, home, both, land · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Man, you, I, dry ground), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Man	det
3	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 make	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 make	punct
7	If	if	SCONJ	_	9 choose	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 choose	nsubj
9	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 make	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 choose	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 make	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 make	aux
13	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 Magic	det
15	Magic	Magic	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 make	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 water	punct
17	so	so	SCONJ	_	22 water	case
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 so	fixed
19	both	both	CCONJ	_	22 water	cc:preconj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 water	det
21	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 water	amod
22	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 make	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 home	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 ground	det
25	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 ground	amod
26	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 home	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 home	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 home	cop
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 home	det
30	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 water	conj
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 you	case
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 home	nmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 children	cc
34	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 children	nmod:poss
35	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 you	conj
36	--	--	PUNCT	_	42 able	punct
37	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	42 able	mark
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 so	fixed
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 able	nsubj
40	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 able	aux
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 able	cop
42	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 make	conj
43	to	to	PART	_	44 hide	mark
44	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 able	xcomp
45	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	44 hide	obj
46	on	on	ADP	_	48 land	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 land	det
48	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 hide	obl
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 sea	cc
50	in	in	ADP	_	52 sea	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 sea	det
52	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 land	conj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 make	punct
54	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	choose a condition, not said to happen	present	you				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	make	future	I	a Magic		so the deep water and a home	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magic=Product
4	is a	future	the dry ground	a home		for you	tree rules
5	is	shall	you			able property	tree rules
6	hide	to-infinitive	you not said here	both	the land and the sea		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent both=Patient on land=Location

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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