Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 21

He went West, and he found All-the-Beaver-there-was making a beaver-dam across the mouths of broad rivers that had been got ready for him.

Who acts: other, All · What happens: go, find, make, get · To what, where: beaver dam, mouths, broad rivers · 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 (other, All), 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	West	west	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
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	17 making	nsubj
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 All	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 All	det
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 All	punct
12	Beaver	Beaver	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 All	nmod
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 Beaver	punct
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 All	expl
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 there	punct
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 making	aux
17	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 found	ccomp
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 dam	det
19	beaver	beaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 dam	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 beaver	punct
21	dam	dam	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 making	obj
22	across	across	ADP	_	24 mouths	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 mouths	det
24	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 making	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 rivers	case
26	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 rivers	amod
27	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 mouths	nmod
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 got	obl
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 got	aux
30	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 got	aux:pass
31	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 rivers	acl:relcl
32	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 got	xcomp
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 ready	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	other			west property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	past	other				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	make	past · progressive	All	a beaver dam	the mouths of broad rivers		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dam=Product
4	get	past · perfect · passive		broad rivers		ready property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»

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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