Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 150
And Pau Amma’s babies hate being taken out of their little Pusat Taseks and brought home in pickle-bottles.
Who acts: babies · What happens: hate, take out, bring · To what, where: little Pusat Taseks, pickle bottles
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 (babies), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 hate | cc |
| 2 | Pau | Pau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 babies | nmod:poss |
| 3 | Amma | Amma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Pau | flat |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 Pau | case |
| 5 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hate | nsubj |
| 6 | hate | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 taken | aux:pass |
| 8 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 hate | xcomp |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 Taseks | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Taseks | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 Taseks | nmod:poss |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Taseks | amod |
| 13 | Pusat | Pusat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Taseks | compound |
| 14 | Taseks | Taseks | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 taken | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 brought | cc |
| 16 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 taken | conj |
| 17 | home | home | ADV | _ | 16 brought | advmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 bottles | case |
| 19 | pickle | pickle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bottles | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 pickle | punct |
| 21 | bottles | bottle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 brought | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hate | present | Pau's babies | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | take out not said to happen | gerund · passive | Pau's babies not said here | babies's little Pusat Taseks | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: taseks=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bring | past | Pau's babies not said here | pickle bottles | home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: 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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