Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 13

Nobody saw him go away except the little girl-daughter where she leaned on the Man’s shoulder.

Who acts: Nobody, Pau, two · What happens: see, go away, learn · To what, where: Pau, shoulder

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 (Nobody, Pau, two), 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	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saw	obj
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 saw	xcomp
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
6	except	except	ADP	_	11 daughter	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 daughter	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 daughter	amod
9	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 daughter	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 girl	punct
11	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 leaned	advmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 leaned	nsubj
14	leaned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 daughter	advcl
15	on	on	ADP	_	19 shoulder	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Man	det
17	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 shoulder	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 Man	case
19	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 leaned	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	Nobody	Pau			tree rules
2	go away	infinitive	Pau not said here			except the little girl daughter; away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	learn	past	two		the Man's shoulder		vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=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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