Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 139
‘See now that you pull the Sea twice a day and twice a night for ever, so that the Malazy fishermen may be saved paddling.
Who acts: you · What happens: see, pull, save · To what, where: Sea, Malazy fishermen
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 | _ | 2 See | punct |
| 2 | See | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 See | advmod |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 pull | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 pull | nsubj |
| 6 | pull | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 See | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Sea | det |
| 8 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 pull | obj |
| 9 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 pull | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 day | det |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pull | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 night | cc |
| 13 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 15 night | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 night | det |
| 15 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pull | conj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 ever | case |
| 17 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 night | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 paddling | punct |
| 19 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 27 paddling | case |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 saved | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fishermen | det |
| 22 | Malazy | malazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 fishermen | amod |
| 23 | fishermen | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 saved | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 saved | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 saved | aux:pass |
| 26 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 paddling | amod |
| 27 | paddling | paddling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 See | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 See | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | now | so saved paddling | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | pull | present | you | the Sea | day | twice property | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent sea=Result | ||
| 3 | save | may · passive | the Malazy fishermen | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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