Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 136

And the Rat of the Moon stopped biting the line; and the Fisherman let his line down till it touched the Sea, and he pulled the whole deep Sea along, past the Island of Bintang, past Singapore, past Malacca, past Selangor, till the canoe whirled into the mouth of the Perak River again.

Who acts: Rat, Fisherman, line · What happens: stop, bite, let, line down, touch, pull · To what, where: line, Sea, whole deep Sea, canoe, mouth

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 (Rat, Fisherman, line), 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	_	7 stopped	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Rat	det
3	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 stopped	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Moon	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Moon	det
6	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Rat	nmod
7	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	biting	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 stopped	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 line	det
10	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 biting	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 let	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Fisherman	det
14	Fisherman	Fisherman	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 let	nsubj
15	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stopped	conj
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 line	nmod:poss
17	line	line	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 let	xcomp
18	down	down	ADP	_	17 line	compound:prt
19	till	till	SCONJ	_	21 touched	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 touched	nsubj
21	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 line	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Sea	det
23	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 touched	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 pulled	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 pulled	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 pulled	nsubj
27	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 let	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Sea	det
29	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 Sea	amod
30	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 Sea	amod
31	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 pulled	obj
32	along	along	ADV	_	27 pulled	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 Island	punct
34	past	past	ADP	_	36 Island	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Island	det
36	Island	Island	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 pulled	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 Bintang	case
38	Bintang	Bintang	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 Island	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 Singapore	punct
40	past	past	ADP	_	41 Singapore	case
41	Singapore	Singapore	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 let	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 Malacca	punct
43	past	past	ADP	_	44 Malacca	case
44	Malacca	Malacca	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 let	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 Selangor	punct
46	past	past	ADP	_	47 Selangor	case
47	Selangor	Selangor	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 let	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 canoe	punct
49	till	till	ADP	_	51 canoe	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 canoe	det
51	canoe	canoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 let	obl
52	whirled	whirl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	51 canoe	acl
53	into	into	ADP	_	55 mouth	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 mouth	det
55	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 whirled	obl
56	of	of	ADP	_	59 River	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 River	det
58	Perak	Perak	PROPN	Number=Sing	59 River	compound
59	River	River	PROPN	Number=Sing	55 mouth	nmod
60	again	again	ADV	_	52 whirled	advmod
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	the Rat of the Moon					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	bite	gerund	the Rat of the Moon not said here	the line				vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Patient
3	let	past	the Fisherman			till the canoe	past Singapore; past Malacca; past Selangor	tree rules
4	line down	infinitive	the Fisherman not said here					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
5	touch	past	line	the Sea				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sea=Co-Theme
6	pull	past	Rat	the whole deep Sea			past the Island of Bintang; along property	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent sea=Result
7	whirl	participle		the canoe not said here	the mouth of the Perak River	again		vn coil-9.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into mouth=Destination

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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