Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 41
They stepped into the canoe; the little girl-daughter came with them; and the Man took his kris--a curving, wavy dagger with a blade like a flame,--and they pushed out on the Perak river.
Who acts: Animals, little girl daughter, Man · What happens: step, come, take, curve, push out · To what, where: canoe, kris
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, little girl daughter, Man), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stepped | nsubj |
| 2 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 canoe | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 canoe | det |
| 5 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stepped | obl |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 daughter | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 daughter | amod |
| 9 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 daughter | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 girl | punct |
| 11 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stepped | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 came | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 took | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 took | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Man | det |
| 18 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 took | nsubj |
| 19 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stepped | conj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 kris | nmod:poss |
| 21 | kris | kris | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 took | obj |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 dagger | punct |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 dagger | det |
| 24 | curving | curve | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 dagger | amod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 curving | punct |
| 26 | wavy | wavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 dagger | amod |
| 27 | dagger | dagger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 kris | appos |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 blade | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 blade | det |
| 30 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 dagger | nmod |
| 31 | like | like | ADP | _ | 33 flame | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 flame | det |
| 33 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 blade | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 took | punct |
| 35 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 38 pushed | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 pushed | cc |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 pushed | nsubj |
| 38 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stepped | conj |
| 39 | out | out | ADP | _ | 38 pushed | compound:prt |
| 40 | on | on | ADP | _ | 43 river | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 river | det |
| 42 | Perak | Perak | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 river | compound |
| 43 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 pushed | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step | past | Animals = animal | the canoe | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into canoe=Destination | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the little girl daughter | with Animals = animal | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | past | the Man | Man's kris | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kris=Theme | ||||
| 4 | curve | gerund | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material | ||||||
| 5 | push out | past | Animals = animal | on the Perak river | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on river=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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