Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 113

Then the Eldest Magician made a Magic with the right hand, with all five fingers of his right hand, and lo and behold, Best Beloved, Pau Amma grew smaller and smaller and smaller, till at last there was only a little green crab swimming in the water alongside the canoe, crying in a very small voice, ‘Give me the scissors!’

Who acts: Eldest Magician, Pau, little green crab · What happens: make, grow, swim, cry, give · To what, where: Magic, Best Beloved, water, small voice, scissors, me

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 (Eldest Magician, Pau, little green crab), 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	5 made	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Magician	det
3	Eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 Magician	amod
4	Magician	Magician	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 made	nsubj
5	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 Magic	det
7	Magic	Magic	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 made	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 hand	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hand	det
10	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hand	amod
11	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fingers	punct
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 fingers	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 fingers	det
15	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 fingers	nummod
16	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 made	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 hand	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 hand	nmod:poss
19	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hand	amod
20	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fingers	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 lo	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 lo	cc
23	lo	lo	INTJ	_	5 made	discourse
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 behold	cc
25	behold	behold	INTJ	_	23 lo	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Beloved	punct
27	Best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 Beloved	amod
28	Beloved	Beloved	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 made	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 grew	punct
30	Pau	Pau	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 grew	nsubj
31	Amma	Amma	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Pau	flat
32	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 Beloved	acl:relcl
33	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	32 grew	xcomp
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 smaller	cc
35	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 smaller	conj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 smaller	cc
37	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 smaller	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 last	punct
39	till	till	ADP	_	41 last	case
40	at	at	ADP	_	41 last	case
41	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 grew	conj
42	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	43 was	expl
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 last	acl:relcl
44	only	only	ADV	_	48 crab	advmod
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 crab	det
46	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 crab	amod
47	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 crab	amod
48	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 was	nsubj
49	swimming	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	48 crab	acl
50	in	in	ADP	_	52 water	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 water	det
52	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 swimming	obl
53	alongside	alongside	ADP	_	55 canoe	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 canoe	det
55	canoe	canoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 swimming	obl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 crying	punct
57	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	49 swimming	conj
58	in	in	ADP	_	62 voice	case
59	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	62 voice	det
60	very	very	ADV	_	61 small	advmod
61	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 voice	amod
62	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 crying	obl
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 Give	punct
64	‘	'	PUNCT	_	65 Give	punct
65	Give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 crab	parataxis
66	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	65 Give	iobj
67	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	68 scissors	det
68	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	65 Give	obj
69	!	!	PUNCT	_	48 crab	punct
70	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the Eldest Magician	a Magic			then	with the right hand; with all five fingers of Magician's right hand	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magic=Product
2	grow	past	Pau	Best Beloved not said here				small property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location beloved=Theme
3	swim	gerund	a little green crab not said here			the water		alongside the canoe	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Trajectory
4	cry speech: express	gerund	a little green crab not said here			a small voice			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in voice=Location
5	give	infinitive		the scissors	me				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient scissors=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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