Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 40
Launch your canoe and we will find out who is playing with the Sea,’ said the Eldest Magician.
Who acts: you, we, Eldest Magician · What happens: launch, find out, play, say · To what, where: canoe · 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 (you, we, Eldest 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 | Launch | launch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 canoe | nmod:poss |
| 3 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Launch | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 find | cc |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 find | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 find | aux |
| 7 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Launch | conj |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 find | compound:prt |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 playing | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 playing | aux |
| 11 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 find | ccomp |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 Sea | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Sea | det |
| 14 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 playing | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 playing | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Magician | det |
| 19 | Eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 Magician | amod |
| 20 | Magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Launch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | launch | imperative | you not said here | your canoe | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canoe=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find out | future | we | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | play | present · progressive | with the Sea | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with sea=Co-Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the Eldest Magician | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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