Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 142

Now listen and attend!

Who acts: you · What happens: listen, attend

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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 listen	advmod
2	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 attend	cc
4	attend	attend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 listen	conj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 listen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	imperative	you not said here				now		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	attend	infinitive	you not said here						vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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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