Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 131
Pull his canoe home with your line, Fisherman.’
Who acts: you · What happens: pull · To what, where: canoe
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), 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 | Pull | pull | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 canoe | nmod:poss |
| 3 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pull | obj |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 1 Pull | advmod |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 line | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 line | nmod:poss |
| 7 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pull | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Fisherman | punct |
| 9 | Fisherman | Fisherman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Pull | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pull | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pull | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | imperative | you not said here | Magician's canoe | with your line; Fisherman obl; home property | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canoe=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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