Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 111
Then Pau Amma thought a little and said, ‘I have made my choice.
Who acts: Pau, I · What happens: think, say, make · To what, where: little, choice · 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 (Pau, I), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 thought | advmod |
| 2 | Pau | Pau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | Amma | Amma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Pau | flat |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 little | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thought | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 made | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 made | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 made | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 made | aux |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 said | ccomp |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 choice | nmod:poss |
| 15 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Pau | a little | then | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot little=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Pau not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | make | present · perfect | I | my choice | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choice=Product |
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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