Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 5

He took the Beaver--All-the-Beaver-there-was and said, ‘Play at being a Beaver,’ and All-the Beaver-there-was played.

Who acts: Magician, All · What happens: take, say, play, be · To what, where: Beaver · 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 (Magician, All), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2781:775): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Beaver	det
4	Beaver	Beaver	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
5	--	--	PUNCT	_	6 All	punct
6	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 Beaver	appos
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 All	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Beaver	det
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 the	punct
10	Beaver	Beaver	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 All	flat
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 there	punct
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 All	flat
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 there	punct
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 All	flat
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Play	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 Play	punct
19	Play	play	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 said	ccomp
20	at	at	SCONJ	_	23 Beaver	mark
21	being	be	AUX	VerbForm=Ger	23 Beaver	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 Beaver	det
23	Beaver	Beaver	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Play	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Play	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 Play	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 played	cc
27	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 played	nsubj
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 All	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Beaver	det
30	Beaver	Beaver	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 All	flat
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 Beaver	punct
32	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 All	flat
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 there	punct
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 All	flat
35	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	take	past	Magician		the Beaver	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument beaver=Destination
2	say speech: assert	past	Magician not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	play	infinitive				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	gerund		a Beaver		tree rules
5	play	past	All			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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