Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 104

If she had spoken then, the Eldest Magician would have called me back, and all this would never have happened.

Who acts: girl, this · What happens: speak, call back, not happen · To what, where: Eldest Magician · 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 (girl, this), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 spoken	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spoken	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spoken	aux
4	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 called	advcl
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 spoken	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 spoken	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Magician	det
8	Eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 Magician	amod
9	Magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 called	nsubj:pass
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 called	aux
11	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 called	aux
12	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 called	obj
14	back	back	ADV	_	12 called	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 happened	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 happened	cc
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 happened	det:predet
18	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 happened	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 happened	aux
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	22 happened	advmod
21	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 happened	aux
22	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 called	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	speak speech: other a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	girl		then	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	call back speech: assert	would · perfect · passive		the Eldest Magician		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme i=Result
3	not happen	would · perfect	this			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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