Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 147

But once a year all Pau Ammas must shake off their hard armour and be soft-to remind them of what the Eldest Magician could do.

Who acts: Pau, Eldest Magician · What happens: shake off, be, remind, do · To what, where: hard armour, babies

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 (Pau, Eldest Magician), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 shake	cc
2	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 shake	advmod
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 year	det
4	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 once	obl:unmarked
5	all	all	ADV	_	9 shake	advmod
6	Pau	Pau	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 shake	nsubj
7	Ammas	Ammas	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Pau	flat
8	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 shake	aux
9	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 shake	compound:prt
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 armour	nmod:poss
12	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 armour	amod
13	armour	armour	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shake	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 be	cc
15	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 shake	conj
16	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 be	xcomp
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 remind	punct
18	to	to	PART	_	19 remind	mark
19	remind	remind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 soft	advcl
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 remind	iobj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 what	case
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 remind	obl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Magician	det
24	Eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 Magician	amod
25	Magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 do	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 do	aux
27	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 what	acl:relcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 shake	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	shake off	must	Pau	babies's hard armour		all, once property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent armour=Patient
2	be	infinitive	Pau not said here			soft property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	remind speech: other	to-infinitive	Pau not said here		babies = baby		vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent they=Recipient of what=Topic
4	do	could	the Eldest Magician				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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