Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 107

If you choose, I will make a Magic and I will give you this pair of scissors, very sharp and strong, so that you and your children can eat cocoa-nuts like this all day long when you come up from the Sea to the land; or you can dig a Pusat Tasek for yourself with the scissors that belong to you when there is no stone or hole near by; and when the earth is too hard, by the help of these same scissors you can run up a tree.’

Who acts: you, I, scissors, stone, earth, help · What happens: choose, make, give, eat, come up, dig · To what, where: Magic, pair, you, cocoa nuts, Sea, Pusat Tasek

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 (you, I, scissors, stone), 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	_	3 choose	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 choose	nsubj
3	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 make	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 choose	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 make	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 make	aux
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 Magic	det
9	Magic	Magic	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 make	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 give	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 give	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 give	aux
13	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 make	conj
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 give	iobj
15	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 pair	det
16	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 give	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 scissors	case
18	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 pair	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sharp	punct
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 sharp	advmod
21	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 make	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 strong	cc
23	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 sharp	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 eat	punct
25	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	32 eat	mark
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 so	fixed
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 eat	nsubj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 children	cc
29	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 children	nmod:poss
30	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 you	conj
31	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 eat	aux
32	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 make	parataxis
33	cocoa	cocoa	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 nuts	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 cocoa	punct
35	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 eat	obj
36	like	like	ADP	_	37 this	case
37	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 nuts	nmod
38	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 day	det
39	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 long	obl:unmarked
40	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 eat	advmod
41	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	43 come	advmod
42	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 come	nsubj
43	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 eat	advcl
44	up	up	ADV	_	43 come	advmod
45	from	from	ADP	_	47 Sea	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 Sea	det
47	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 come	obl
48	to	to	ADP	_	50 land	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 land	det
50	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 come	obl
51	;	;	PUNCT	_	55 dig	punct
52	or	or	CCONJ	_	55 dig	cc
53	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	55 dig	nsubj
54	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 dig	aux
55	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 make	conj
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 Tasek	det
57	Pusat	Pusat	PROPN	Number=Sing	58 Tasek	compound
58	Tasek	Tasek	PROPN	Number=Sing	55 dig	obj
59	for	for	ADP	_	60 yourself	case
60	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	55 dig	obl
61	with	with	ADP	_	63 scissors	case
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 scissors	det
63	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 dig	obl
64	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	65 belong	nsubj
65	belong	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	63 scissors	acl:relcl
66	to	to	ADP	_	67 you	case
67	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	55 dig	obl
68	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	70 is	advmod
69	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	70 is	expl
70	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 dig	advcl
71	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	72 stone	det
72	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	70 is	nsubj
73	or	or	CCONJ	_	74 hole	cc
74	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	72 stone	conj
75	near	near	ADV	_	72 stone	advmod
76	by	by	ADP	_	75 near	fixed
77	;	;	PUNCT	_	84 hard	punct
78	and	and	CCONJ	_	84 hard	cc
79	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	84 hard	advmod
80	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	81 earth	det
81	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	84 hard	nsubj
82	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	84 hard	cop
83	too	too	ADV	_	84 hard	advmod
84	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 make	conj
85	,	,	PUNCT	_	88 help	punct
86	by	by	ADP	_	88 help	case
87	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	88 help	det
88	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	95 run	nsubj
89	of	of	ADP	_	92 scissors	case
90	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	92 scissors	det
91	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	92 scissors	amod
92	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	88 help	nmod
93	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	95 run	nsubj
94	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	95 run	aux
95	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	84 hard	parataxis
96	up	up	ADP	_	95 run	compound:prt
97	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	98 tree	det
98	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	95 run	obj
99	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 make	punct
100	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	choose a condition, not said to happen	present	you					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	make	future	I	a Magic				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magic=Product
3	give	future	I	this pair of scissors	you			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient pair=Theme
4	eat	can	you	cocoa nuts			like this; long property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Patient
5	come up	present	you			the Sea	to the land	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from sea=Initial_Location to land=Destination
6	dig	can	you	a Pusat Tasek	you		for yourself; with the scissors	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.instsrument»: agent=Agent tasek=Theme with scissors=Instrument
7	belong	present	the scissors					vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
8	does	present	no stone or hole			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	is	present	the earth				hard property	tree rules
10	run up	can	the help of this same scissors	a tree				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tree=Trajectory
11	help			this same scissors				nom help «act transitive»: of=patient

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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