Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 18

He went East, and he found All-the-Cow there-was feeding in the field that had been made ready for her, and she licked her tongue round a whole forest at a time, and swallowed it and sat down to chew her cud.

Who acts: Elephant, Cow · What happens: go, find, feed, make, lick, swallow · To what, where: East, Cow, field, tongue, cud

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 (Elephant, Cow), 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	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 went	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 found	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 found	cc
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 found	nsubj
7	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
8	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 Cow	det
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 Cow	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Cow	det
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 the	punct
12	Cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 found	obj
13	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 Cow	advmod
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 feeding	punct
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 feeding	aux
16	feeding	feed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 found	advcl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 field	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 field	det
19	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 feeding	obl
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 made	obl
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 made	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 made	aux:pass
23	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 field	acl:relcl
24	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 made	xcomp
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 her	case
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 ready	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 licked	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 licked	cc
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 licked	nsubj
30	licked	lick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 tongue	nmod:poss
32	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 licked	obj
33	round	round	ADP	_	36 forest	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 forest	det
35	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 forest	amod
36	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 licked	obl
37	at	at	ADP	_	39 time	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 time	det
39	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 licked	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 swallowed	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 swallowed	cc
42	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 swallowed	obj
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 sat	cc
45	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 swallowed	conj
46	down	down	ADP	_	45 sat	compound:prt
47	to	to	PART	_	48 chew	mark
48	chew	chew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 sat	advcl
49	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 cud	nmod:poss
50	cud	cud	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 chew	obj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Elephant	East				vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location east=Theme
2	find	past	Elephant	all Cow				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Topic
3	feed	past · progressive	Elephant not said here		the field			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in field=Location
4	make	past · perfect · passive		the field			ready property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»
5	lick	past	Cow	Cow's tongue		time	round a whole forest	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent tongue=Source
6	swallow	past		tongue				vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
7	sit down	past						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	chew	to-infinitive		Cow's cud				vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cud=Patient

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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