Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 52
And the Rat said, ‘I am too busy biting through the line that this old Fisherman is spinning.
Who acts: Rat, I, old Fisherman · What happens: say, be, bite, spin · To what, where: line · 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, I, old Fisherman), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Rat | det |
| 3 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 busy | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 busy | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 busy | nsubj |
| 8 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 busy | cop |
| 9 | too | too | ADV | _ | 10 busy | advmod |
| 10 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 said | ccomp |
| 11 | biting | bite | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 busy | advcl |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 line | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 line | det |
| 14 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 biting | obl |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 spinning | obj |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 Fisherman | det |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Fisherman | amod |
| 18 | Fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 spinning | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 spinning | aux |
| 20 | spinning | spin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 line | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Rat | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | I | busy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bite | gerund | I not said here | the line | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent through line=Location | ||||
| 4 | spin | present · progressive | this old Fisherman | the line | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
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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