Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 151
That is why they nip you with their scissors, and it serves you right!
Who acts: That, babies, armour · What happens: be, nip, serve · To what, where: you
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 (That, babies, armour), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 why | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 why | cop |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 nip | nsubj |
| 5 | nip | nip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 why | advcl:relcl |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 nip | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 scissors | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 scissors | nmod:poss |
| 9 | scissors | scissors | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 nip | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 serves | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 serves | cc |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 serves | nsubj |
| 13 | serves | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 why | conj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 serves | obj |
| 15 | right | right | ADV | _ | 13 serves | advmod |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 why | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | That | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | nip | present | babies = baby | you | with babies's scissors | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location you=Theme | |||
| 3 | serve | present | armour | you | right property | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Attribute |
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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