Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 133

‘If I am to be lazy all my days, let the Sea work for me twice a day for ever.

Who acts: you · What happens: be, let · To what, where: Sea work

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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 let	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 am	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 am	nsubj
4	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 let	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	7 lazy	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 lazy	cop
7	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 days	amod
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 days	det:predet
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 days	nmod:poss
10	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 am	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 am	punct
12	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 work	det
14	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 work	compound
15	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 let	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 me	case
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 let	obl
18	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	20 day	advmod
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 day	det
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 let	obl:unmarked
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 ever	case
22	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 let	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	to-infinitive						lazy property	tree rules
2	let	imperative	you not said here	the Sea work			day	for me	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent work=Theme for i=Asset

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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