Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 3

And the Animals said, ‘O Eldest Magician, what shall we play at?’ and he said, ‘I will show you.

Who acts: Animals, we, Magician, I · What happens: say, play, show · To what, where: Eldest Magician, you · 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 (Animals, we, Magician, I), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Animals	det
3	Animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Magician	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 Magician	punct
7	O	o	INTJ	_	9 Magician	discourse
8	Eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 Magician	amod
9	Magician	Magician	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 play	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 play	punct
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 play	obj
12	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 play	aux
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 play	nsubj
14	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
15	at	at	ADP	_	14 play	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 play	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 play	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 said	nsubj
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 show	punct
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	25 show	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 show	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 show	aux
25	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 said	ccomp
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 show	iobj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Animals			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	play	shall	we	Eldest Magician		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	Magician			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	show	future	I		you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/11/3/