Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 42

Then the sea began to run back and back, and the canoe was sucked out of the mouth of the Perak river, past Selangor, past Malacca, past Singapore, out and out to the Island of Bingtang, as though it had been pulled by a string.

Who acts: sea, string · What happens: begin, run back, suck out, pull · To what, where: canoe, mouth

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 (sea, string), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sea	det
3	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 run	mark
6	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 run	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 back	cc
9	back	back	ADV	_	7 back	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sucked	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sucked	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 canoe	det
13	canoe	canoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sucked	nsubj:pass
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sucked	aux:pass
15	sucked	suck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 began	conj
16	out	out	ADP	_	19 mouth	case
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 mouth	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 mouth	det
19	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sucked	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 river	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 river	det
22	Perak	Perak	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 river	compound
23	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 mouth	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Selangor	punct
25	past	past	ADP	_	26 Selangor	case
26	Selangor	Selangor	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 sucked	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 Malacca	punct
28	past	past	ADP	_	29 Malacca	case
29	Malacca	Malacca	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 sucked	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 Singapore	punct
31	past	past	ADP	_	32 Singapore	case
32	Singapore	Singapore	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 began	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 out	punct
34	out	out	ADV	_	39 Island	advmod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 out	cc
36	out	out	ADV	_	34 out	conj
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 Island	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Island	det
39	Island	Island	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 began	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 Bingtang	case
41	Bingtang	Bingtang	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 Island	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 pulled	punct
43	as	as	ADV	_	48 pulled	advmod
44	though	though	SCONJ	_	48 pulled	mark
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 pulled	nsubj:pass
46	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 pulled	aux
47	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	48 pulled	aux:pass
48	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 began	parataxis
49	by	by	ADP	_	51 string	case
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 string	det
51	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 pulled	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the sea			then	past Singapore; to the Island of Bingtang	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	run back	to-infinitive	the sea not said here					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	suck out	past · passive		the canoe	the mouth of the Perak river		past Selangor; past Malacca	tree rules
4	pull	past · perfect · passive	a string	canoe				vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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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