Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 135
And the Eldest Magician laughed and said, ‘Payah kun’ (That is right).
Who acts: Eldest Magician, That · What happens: laugh, say, be · 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 (Eldest Magician, That), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 laughed | cc |
| 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 laughed | nsubj |
| 5 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 laughed | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 kun | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 kun | punct |
| 10 | Payah | Payah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 kun | compound |
| 11 | kun | kun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 kun | punct |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 right | punct |
| 14 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 right | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 right | cop |
| 16 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 kun | parataxis |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 right | punct |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | the Eldest Magician | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Eldest Magician not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | That | right property | tree rules |
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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