Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 12

Now, while the two were talking together, Pau Amma the Crab, who was next in the game, scuttled off sideways and stepped into the sea, saying to himself, ‘I will play my play alone in the deep waters, and I will never be obedient to this son of Adam.’

Who acts: two, Pau, I, my · What happens: talk, be, scuttle off, step, say, play · To what, where: game, sea, Pau, play, deep waters · 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 (two, Pau, I, my), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 scuttled	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	while	while	SCONJ	_	7 talking	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 two	det
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 talking	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 talking	aux
7	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 scuttled	advcl
8	together	together	ADV	_	7 talking	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 talking	punct
10	Pau	Pau	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 scuttled	nsubj
11	Amma	Amma	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Pau	flat
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Crab	det
13	Crab	Crab	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Pau	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 game	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 game	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 game	cop
17	next	next	ADV	_	20 game	advmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 game	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 game	det
20	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Pau	appos
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 scuttled	punct
22	scuttled	scuttle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
23	off	off	ADP	_	22 scuttled	compound:prt
24	sideways	sideways	ADV	_	22 scuttled	advmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 stepped	cc
26	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 scuttled	conj
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 sea	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sea	det
29	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stepped	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 saying	punct
31	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 stepped	advcl
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 himself	case
33	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	31 saying	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 play	punct
35	‘	'	PUNCT	_	38 play	punct
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 play	nsubj
37	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 play	aux
38	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 saying	advcl
39	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 play	nmod:poss
40	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 play	obj
41	alone	alone	ADV	_	38 play	advmod
42	in	in	ADP	_	45 waters	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 waters	det
44	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 waters	amod
45	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 play	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 obedient	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 obedient	cc
48	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	52 obedient	nsubj
49	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 obedient	aux
50	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	52 obedient	advmod
51	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	52 obedient	cop
52	obedient	obedient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 stepped	conj
53	to	to	ADP	_	55 son	case
54	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	55 son	det
55	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 obedient	obl
56	of	of	ADP	_	57 Adam	case
57	Adam	Adam	PROPN	Number=Sing	55 son	nmod
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 scuttled	punct
59	’	'	PUNCT	_	22 scuttled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past · progressive	the two					together property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	Pau			the game		next property	tree rules
3	scuttle off	participle	Pau				now	sideways property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	step	past	Pau not said here			the sea			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into sea=Destination
5	say speech: assert	gerund	Pau not said here		Pau				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
6	play	future	I	my play		the deep waters		alone property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent play=Theme
7	not is	future	I					to this son of Adam; obedient property	tree rules
8	play		my						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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