Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 141
Then they all went up the Perak River and went to bed, Best Beloved.
Who acts: magic · What happens: go up, go · To what, where: Perak River, bed
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 (magic), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 went | advmod |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 went | compound:prt |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 River | det |
| 7 | Perak | Perak | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 River | compound |
| 8 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 bed | case |
| 12 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Beloved | punct |
| 14 | Best | Good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Beloved | flat |
| 15 | Beloved | Beloved | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | past | magic | the Perak River | then | Best Beloved obl | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient river=Extent | ||
| 2 | go | past | magic not said here | bed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location |
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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