Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 144

Sometimes the Fisher of the Sea pulls a little too hard, and then we get spring tides; and sometimes he pulls a little too softly, and then we get what are called neap-tides; but nearly always he is careful, because of the Eldest Magician.

Who acts: Fisher, we · What happens: pull, get, call, be · To what, where: little, spring tides, neap 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 (Fisher, 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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 pulls	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Fisher	det
3	Fisher	Fisher	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 pulls	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Sea	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Sea	det
6	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Fisher	nmod
7	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 little	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pulls	obj
10	too	too	ADV	_	11 hard	advmod
11	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 pulls	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 get	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 get	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 get	advmod
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 get	nsubj
16	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 pulls	conj
17	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tides	compound
18	tides	tide	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 get	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 pulls	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 pulls	cc
21	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	23 pulls	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 pulls	nsubj
23	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 pulls	parataxis
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 little	det
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 pulls	obj
26	too	too	ADV	_	27 softly	advmod
27	softly	softly	ADV	_	23 pulls	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 get	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 get	cc
30	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 get	advmod
31	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 get	nsubj
32	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 pulls	conj
33	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	35 called	nsubj:pass
34	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 called	aux:pass
35	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 get	xcomp
36	neap	neap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 tides	amod
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 neap	punct
38	tides	tide	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 called	xcomp
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 careful	punct
40	but	but	CCONJ	_	45 careful	cc
41	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	42 always	advmod
42	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	45 careful	advmod
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 careful	nsubj
44	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 careful	cop
45	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pulls	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 Magician	punct
47	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	51 Magician	case
48	of	of	ADP	_	47 because	fixed
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 Magician	det
50	Eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	51 Magician	amod
51	Magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 careful	conj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 pulls	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pull	present	the Fisher of the Sea	a little		hard, sometimes property	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Theme
2	get	present	we	spring tides	then		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tide=Stimulus
3	pull	present	Fisher	a little		softly, sometimes property	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Theme
4	get	present	we		then		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	call	present · passive		neap tides			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
6	is	present	Fisher			always, careful property	tree rules

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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