Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 47
Fisher of the Moon, are you playing with the Sea?’
Who acts: you · 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 (you), 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 | Fisher | Fisher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 playing | vocative |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Moon | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Moon | det |
| 4 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Fisher | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fisher | punct |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 playing | aux |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 playing | nsubj |
| 8 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 Sea | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Sea | det |
| 11 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 playing | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 playing | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 playing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | present · progressive | you | with the Sea; Fisher of the Moon vocative | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/11/47/