Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 56

And the Eldest Magician said, ‘How wise are little children who see and are silent!

Who acts: Eldest Magician, wise little children · What happens: say, be, see · To what, where: wise little children · 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 (Eldest Magician, wise little children), 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	_	5 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Magician	det
3	Eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 Magician	amod
4	Magician	Magician	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wise	punct
7	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 wise	punct
8	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 wise	advmod
9	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 children	amod
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 children	cop
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 children	amod
12	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 said	obj
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 see	nsubj
14	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 children	acl:relcl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 silent	cc
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 silent	cop
17	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 see	conj
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Eldest Magician			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present		wise little children		tree rules
3	see	present	wise little children			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	present	wise little children not said here		silent property	tree rules

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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