Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 160

And if ‘Beavers’ took their cargoes To Penang instead of Lagos, Or a fat Shaw-Savill bore Passengers to Singapore, Or a White Star were to try a Little trip to Sourabaya, Or a B.S.A. went on Past Natal to Cheribon, Then great Mr. Lloyds would come With a wire and drag them home!

Who acts: Beavers, fat Shaw, White Star, B.S.A, great Lloyds · What happens: take, bear, try, go, come, drag · To what, where: cargoes, Penang, Passengers, Singapore, Little trip, Cheribon

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 (Beavers, fat Shaw, White Star, B.S.A), 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 took	cc
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 took	mark
3	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 Beavers	punct
4	Beavers	Beaver	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 took	nsubj
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 Beavers	punct
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 cargoes	nmod:poss
8	cargoes	cargo	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 took	obj
9	To	to	ADP	_	10 Penang	case
10	Penang	Penang	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 took	obl
11	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	13 Lagos	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	11 instead	fixed
13	Lagos	Lagos	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 took	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 bore	punct
15	Or	or	CCONJ	_	21 bore	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 Shaw	det
17	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Shaw	amod
18	Shaw	Shaw	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 bore	nsubj
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 Savill	punct
20	Savill	Savill	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Shaw	conj
21	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 took	conj
22	Passengers	passenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 bore	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 Singapore	case
24	Singapore	Singapore	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 bore	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 try	punct
26	Or	or	CCONJ	_	32 try	cc
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 Star	det
28	White	White	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 Star	amod
29	Star	Star	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 try	nsubj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 try	aux
31	to	to	PART	_	32 try	mark
32	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 took	parataxis
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 trip	det
34	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 trip	amod
35	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 try	obj
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 Sourabaya	case
37	Sourabaya	Sourabaya	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 trip	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 went	punct
39	Or	or	CCONJ	_	43 went	cc
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 B.S.A	det
41	B.S.A	B.S.A	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 went	nsubj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	41 B.S.A	punct
43	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 took	conj
44	on	on	ADP	_	46 Natal	case
45	Past	past	ADP	_	46 Natal	case
46	Natal	Natal	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 went	obl
47	to	to	ADP	_	48 Cheribon	case
48	Cheribon	Cheribon	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 went	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 come	punct
50	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	55 come	advmod
51	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 Lloyds	amod
52	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 Lloyds	nmod:desc
53	Lloyds	Lloyds	PROPN	Number=Sing	55 come	nsubj
54	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 come	aux
55	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 took	parataxis
56	With	with	ADP	_	58 wire	case
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 wire	det
58	wire	wire	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 come	obl
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 drag	cc
60	drag	drag	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 come	conj
61	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 drag	obj
62	home	home	ADV	_	60 drag	advmod
63	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	Beavers	Bibby's cargoes	Penang			instead Lagos	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cargo=Theme to penang=Destination
2	bear	past	a fat Shaw and Savill	Passengers	Singapore				vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passenger=Patient
3	try	past	a White Star	a Little trip				to Sourabaya	vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trip=Eventuality
4	go	past	a B.S.A		Cheribon	Natal			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cheribon=Initial_Location
5	come	would	great Lloyds Mr.				then	with a wire	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	drag	infinitive	great Lloyds Mr. not said here	Passengers = passenger				home property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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