Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 4

He took the Elephant--All-the-Elephant-there-was--and said, ‘Play at being an Elephant,’ and All-the-Elephant-there-was played.

Who acts: Magician · What happens: take, be, say, play · To what, where: Elephant, 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 (Magician), 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 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Elephant	det
4	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
5	--	--	PUNCT	_	14 was	punct
6	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 was	obl
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 Elephant	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Elephant	det
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 the	punct
10	Elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 All	appos
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 Elephant	punct
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 was	expl
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 there	punct
14	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
15	--	--	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Play	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 Play	punct
20	Play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	ccomp
21	at	at	ADP	_	24 Elephant	case
22	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 Elephant	cop
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 Elephant	det
24	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Play	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Play	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	20 Play	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 played	cc
28	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 played	nsubj:pass
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 Elephant	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Elephant	det
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 the	punct
32	Elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 All	appos
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 Elephant	punct
34	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	37 played	expl
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 played	punct
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 played	aux:pass
37	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 took	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	Magician		the Elephant			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument elephant=Destination
2	be	past	Magician not said here	All		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	Magician not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	play	infinitive						vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	gerund					at a Elephant	tree rules
6	play	past · passive		All		there		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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