Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 109
Give me back my shell, O Eldest Magician, and then I will play your play.’
Who acts: you, I, your · What happens: give back, play · To what, where: shell, me, play
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, your), 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 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Give | iobj |
| 3 | back | back | ADP | _ | 1 Give | compound:prt |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 shell | nmod:poss |
| 5 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Give | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Magician | punct |
| 7 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 9 Magician | discourse |
| 8 | Eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 Magician | amod |
| 9 | Magician | Magician | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Give | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 play | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 play | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 play | advmod |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 play | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 play | aux |
| 15 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Give | conj |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 play | nmod:poss |
| 17 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 play | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give back | imperative | you not said here | my shell | me | Eldest Magician obl | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient shell=Theme | ||
| 2 | play | future | I | your play | then | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent play=Theme | |||
| 3 | play | your | nom play «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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