Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 51

Rat of the Moon, are you playing with the Sea?’

Who acts: Rat · 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 (Rat), 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	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 playing	nsubj
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 Rat	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Rat	punct
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 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	Rat of the Moon					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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