Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 46
Then the Moon rose big and full over the water, and the Eldest Magician said to the hunchbacked old man who sits in the Moon spinning a fishing-line with which he hopes one day to catch the world, ‘Ho!
Who acts: Moon, Eldest Magician, hunchbacked old man, Magician · What happens: rise, say, sit, spin, hope, catch · To what, where: water, Ho, hunchbacked old man, Moon, fishing line, world · 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 (Moon, Eldest Magician, hunchbacked old man, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 rose | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Moon | det |
| 3 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 rose | nsubj |
| 4 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rose | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 full | cc |
| 7 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 big | conj |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 water | det |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rose | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Magician | det |
| 14 | Eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 Magician | amod |
| 15 | Magician | Magician | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rose | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 man | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 man | det |
| 19 | hunchbacked | hunchbacked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 man | amod |
| 20 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 man | amod |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | obl |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 sits | nsubj |
| 23 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 man | acl:relcl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 Moon | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Moon | det |
| 26 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 sits | obl |
| 27 | spinning | spin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 sits | advcl |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 line | det |
| 29 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 line | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 fishing | punct |
| 31 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 spinning | obj |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 which | case |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 hopes | obl |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 hopes | nsubj |
| 35 | hopes | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 line | acl:relcl |
| 36 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 day | nummod |
| 37 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 hopes | obl:unmarked |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 catch | mark |
| 39 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 hopes | xcomp |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 world | det |
| 41 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 catch | obj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 Ho | punct |
| 43 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 44 Ho | punct |
| 44 | Ho | Ho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | obl |
| 45 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the Moon | the water | then | big property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over water=Location | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Eldest Magician | Ho | the hunchbacked old man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to man=Recipient | |||
| 3 | sit | present | the hunchbacked old man | the Moon | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in moon=Location | ||||
| 4 | spin | gerund | the hunchbacked old man not said here | a fishing line | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent line=Theme | ||||
| 5 | hope | present | Magician | day | with a fishing line | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||
| 6 | catch not said to happen | to-infinitive | Magician not said here | the world | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=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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