Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 15
He went North, Best Beloved, and he found All-the-Elephant-there-was digging with his tusks and stamping with his feet in the nice new clean earth that had been made ready for him.
Who acts: Magician · What happens: go, find, dig, stamp, make · To what, where: North, Elephant, nice new clean earth
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Beloved | punct |
| 5 | Best | Good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Beloved | flat |
| 6 | Beloved | Beloved | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 North | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 found | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 found | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 found | nsubj |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 11 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 Elephant | det |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 All | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 All | det |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 All | punct |
| 15 | Elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 found | obj |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 found | punct |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 20 digging | expl |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 there | punct |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 digging | aux |
| 20 | digging | dig | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 found | advcl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 tusks | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 tusks | nmod:poss |
| 23 | tusks | tusk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 digging | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 stamping | cc |
| 25 | stamping | stamp | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 digging | conj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 feet | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 feet | nmod:poss |
| 28 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 stamping | obl |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 earth | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 earth | det |
| 31 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 earth | amod |
| 32 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 earth | amod |
| 33 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 earth | amod |
| 34 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stamping | obl |
| 35 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 made | obl |
| 36 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 made | aux |
| 37 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 38 made | aux:pass |
| 38 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 earth | acl:relcl |
| 39 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 made | xcomp |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 him | case |
| 41 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 ready | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Magician | North and Best Beloved | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location north=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past | Magician | all Elephant | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent elephant=Topic | ||||
| 3 | dig | past · progressive | Magician not said here | there | with Magician's tusks | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with tusk=Instrument | |||
| 4 | stamp | gerund | Magician not said here | the nice new clean earth | with Magician's feet | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent in earth=Destination | |||
| 5 | make | past · perfect · passive | the nice new clean earth | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» |
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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