Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 2

First he got the Earth ready; then he got the Sea ready; and then he told all the Animals that they could come out and play.

Who acts: Magician, Animals · What happens: get, tell, come out, play · To what, where: Earth, Sea, Animals · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Magician, Animals), 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	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 got	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Earth	det
5	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 got	obj
6	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 got	xcomp
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 got	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 got	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 got	nsubj
10	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 got	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Sea	det
12	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 got	obj
13	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 got	xcomp
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 told	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 told	cc
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 told	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 told	nsubj
18	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 got	conj
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 Animals	det:predet
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Animals	det
21	Animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 told	obj
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 come	nsubj
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 come	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 come	aux
25	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 Animals	acl:relcl
26	out	out	ADV	_	25 come	advmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 play	cc
28	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 come	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	Magician	the Earth			first, ready property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer earth=Stimulus
2	get	past	Magician	the Sea		then	ready property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sea=Stimulus
3	tell speech: assert	past	Magician		all Animals	then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent animal=Recipient
4	come out	could	all Animals				out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
5	play	infinitive	all Animals not said here					vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: 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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