Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 158
Orient, Anchor, Bibby, Hall, Never go that way at all.
What happens: not go · To what, where: way
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: 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 | Orient | orient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Anchor | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Anchor | punct |
| 3 | Anchor | Anchor | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Bibby | punct |
| 5 | Bibby | Bibby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Anchor | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Hall | punct |
| 7 | Hall | Hall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Bibby | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 go | punct |
| 9 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 go | advmod |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 Anchor | conj |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 way | det |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 go | obl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 all | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 way | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Anchor | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | infinitive | that way at all | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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