Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 22

‘Kun?’ said All-the-Beaver-there-was.

Who acts: Kun · What happens: say · To what, where: All · 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 (Kun), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Kun	punct
2	Kun	Kun	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Kun	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Kun	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 said	obj
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 All	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 All	det
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 All	punct
10	Beaver	Beaver	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 was	nsubj
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 Beaver	punct
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 was	expl
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 there	punct
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 All	acl:relcl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Kun	All					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent all=Topic

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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