Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 24

Then he went South and found All-the-Turtle-there-was scratching with his flippers in the sand that had been got ready for him, and the sand and the rocks whirled through the air and fell far off into the sea.

Who acts: Kun, All, sand · What happens: go, find, scratch, get, whirl, fall · To what, where: sand, air, sea · 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, All, sand), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	South	south	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 found	cc
6	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
7	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 scratching	nsubj
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 Turtle	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Turtle	det
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 the	punct
11	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 scratching	nsubj
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 Turtle	punct
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 scratching	expl
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 scratching	punct
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 scratching	aux
16	scratching	scratch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 found	ccomp
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 flippers	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 flippers	nmod:poss
19	flippers	flipper	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 scratching	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 sand	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sand	det
22	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 flippers	nmod
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 got	obl
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 got	aux
25	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 got	aux:pass
26	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 sand	acl:relcl
27	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 got	xcomp
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 ready	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 whirled	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 whirled	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 sand	det
33	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 whirled	nsubj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 rocks	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 rocks	det
36	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 sand	conj
37	whirled	whirl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
38	through	through	ADP	_	40 air	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 air	det
40	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 whirled	obl
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 fell	cc
42	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 whirled	conj
43	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	44 off	advmod
44	off	off	ADV	_	42 fell	advmod
45	into	into	ADP	_	47 sea	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 sea	det
47	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 fell	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Kun			then	south property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	past	Kun not said here					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	scratch	past · progressive	All		there		with Kun's flippers in the sand	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with flipper=Instrument
4	get	past · perfect · passive		the sand			ready property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»
5	whirl	past	the sand and the rocks		the air			vn coil-9.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Destination
6	fall	past	the sand and the rocks not said here				into the sea result; off property	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into sea=Result

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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