Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 143

From that day to this the Moon has always pulled the sea up and down and made what we call the tides.

Who acts: Moon, we · What happens: pull, make, call · To what, where: sea, tides · 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 (Moon, we), 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	From	from	ADP	_	3 day	case
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pulled	obl
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 this	case
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 day	nmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Moon	det
7	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 pulled	nsubj
8	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 pulled	aux
9	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	10 pulled	advmod
10	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sea	det
12	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pulled	obj
13	up	up	ADV	_	10 pulled	advmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 down	cc
15	down	down	ADV	_	13 up	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 made	cc
17	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 pulled	conj
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 call	obj
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 call	nsubj
20	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 made	ccomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 tides	det
22	tides	tide	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 call	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 pulled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pull	present · perfect	the Moon	the sea	day	always property	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Theme
2	make	past	the Moon not said here				tree rules
3	call	present	we	the tides			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme tide=Result

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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