Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 37
‘That is a new and a bad play.’
Who acts: That · What happens: be
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 (That), 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 | _ | 5 new | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 new | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 new | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 new | det |
| 5 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 play | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 play | det |
| 8 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 play | amod |
| 9 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 new | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 new | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 new | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | That | new property | tree rules |
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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