Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 43

Then the Eldest Magician stood up and shouted, ‘Ho! beasts, birds, and fishes, that I took between my hands at the Very Beginning and taught the play that you should play, which one of you is playing with the Sea?’

Who acts: Eldest Magician, fishes, you, one · What happens: stand up, shout, take, teach, play · To what, where: Ho beasts, Beginning, play

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 (Eldest Magician, fishes, you, one), 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	5 stood	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Magician	det
3	Eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 Magician	amod
4	Magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stood	nsubj
5	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 stood	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 shouted	cc
8	shouted	shout	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 stood	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 beasts	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 beasts	punct
11	Ho	Ho	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 beasts	compound
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 Ho	punct
13	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stood	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 birds	punct
15	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 beasts	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fishes	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 fishes	cc
18	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stood	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 took	punct
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 took	nsubj
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 took	nsubj
22	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 fishes	acl:relcl
23	between	between	ADP	_	25 hands	case
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 hands	nmod:poss
25	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 took	obl
26	at	at	ADP	_	29 Beginning	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Beginning	det
28	Very	very	ADV	_	29 Beginning	advmod
29	Beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 took	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 taught	cc
31	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 took	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 play	det
33	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 taught	obj
34	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 play	obl
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 play	nsubj
36	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 play	aux
37	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 play	acl:relcl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 playing	punct
39	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	40 one	det
40	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 playing	nsubj
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 you	case
42	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	40 one	nmod
43	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 playing	aux
44	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 play	acl
45	with	with	ADP	_	47 Sea	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 Sea	det
47	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 playing	obl
48	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 fishes	punct
49	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stand up	past	the Eldest Magician	Ho beasts and birds	then	fishes obl	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	shout speech: express	participle	the Eldest Magician not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	take	past	fishes		at the Beginning	between my hands	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent at beginning=Asset
4	teach speech: other	past	fishes not said here	the play			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent play=Recipient
5	play	should	you	the play			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	play	present · progressive	which one of you			with the Sea	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with sea=Co-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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