Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 45
But not one of us plays with the Sea.’
Who acts: one · What happens: 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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 plays | cc |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 one | advmod |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 plays | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 us | case |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 one | nmod |
| 6 | plays | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 Sea | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Sea | det |
| 9 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 plays | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 plays | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 plays | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | present | one of us | 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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