Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 48

‘No,’ said the Fisherman, ‘I am spinning a line with which I shall some day catch the world; but I do not play with the Sea.’

Who acts: Fisherman, I · What happens: say, spin, catch, not play · To what, where: 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 (Fisherman, I), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Fisherman	det
7	Fisherman	Fisherman	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 spinning	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 spinning	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 spinning	nsubj
11	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 spinning	aux
12	spinning	spin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 said	advcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 line	det
14	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 spinning	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 which	case
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 catch	obl
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 catch	nsubj
18	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 catch	aux
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 day	det
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 catch	obl:unmarked
21	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 line	acl:relcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 world	det
23	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 catch	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 play	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 play	cc
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 play	nsubj
27	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 play	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 play	advmod
29	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 Sea	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Sea	det
32	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 play	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 play	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	29 play	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Fisherman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	spin	present · progressive	I	a line			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent line=Theme
3	catch	shall	I	the world	day	with a line	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Theme
4	not play	present · do-support	I			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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