Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 50

Now there is also a Rat up in the Moon who always bites the old Fisherman’s line as fast as it is made, and the Eldest Magician said to him, ‘Ho!

Who acts: Rat, Moon, Eldest Magician · What happens: be up, bite, make, say · To what, where: Moon, line, Fisherman · 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 (Rat, Moon, Eldest 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 is	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 is	expl
3	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 said	ccomp
4	also	also	ADV	_	6 Rat	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 Rat	det
6	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 is	nsubj
7	up	up	ADP	_	3 is	compound:prt
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 Moon	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Moon	det
10	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 is	obl
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 bites	nsubj
12	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 bites	advmod
13	bites	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 Moon	acl:relcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Fisherman	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Fisherman	amod
16	Fisherman	Fisherman	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 line	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 Fisherman	case
18	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bites	obj
19	as	as	ADV	_	20 fast	advmod
20	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 bites	advmod
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 made	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 made	nsubj:pass
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 made	aux:pass
24	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 fast	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 said	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Magician	det
28	Eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	29 Magician	amod
29	Magician	Magician	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 said	nsubj
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 said	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 Ho	punct
34	‘	'	PUNCT	_	35 Ho	punct
35	Ho	Ho	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 said	parataxis
36	!	!	PUNCT	_	35 Ho	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be up	present	a Rat			the Moon; there	now		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in moon=Location
2	bite	present	the Moon	the old Fisherman's line				always, fast property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Patient
3	make	present · passive		line					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
4	say speech: assert	past	the Eldest Magician		Fisherman				vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic

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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