Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 58

And the little girl-daughter said, ‘He was round and he was flat; and his eyes grew upon stalks; and he walked sideways like this; and he was covered with strong armour upon his back.’

Who acts: little girl daughter, Magician, eyes · What happens: say, be, grow, walk, cover · To what, where: stalks, Magician · 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 (little girl daughter, Magician, eyes), 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	_	7 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 daughter	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 daughter	amod
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 daughter	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 girl	punct
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 round	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 round	punct
10	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 round	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 round	cop
12	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	ccomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 flat	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 flat	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 flat	cop
16	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 round	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 grew	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 grew	cc
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 eyes	nmod:poss
20	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 grew	nsubj
21	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
22	upon	upon	ADP	_	23 stalks	case
23	stalks	stalk	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 grew	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 walked	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 walked	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 walked	nsubj
27	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 grew	conj
28	sideways	sideways	ADV	_	27 walked	advmod
29	like	like	ADP	_	30 this	case
30	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 walked	obl
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 covered	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 covered	cc
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 covered	nsubj:pass
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 covered	aux:pass
35	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 said	conj
36	with	with	ADP	_	38 armour	case
37	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 armour	amod
38	armour	armour	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 covered	obl
39	upon	upon	ADP	_	41 back	case
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 back	nmod:poss
41	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 covered	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
43	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the little girl daughter				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	Magician			round property	tree rules
3	is	past	Magician			flat property	tree rules
4	grow	past	Magician's eyes		stalks		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon stalk=Location
5	walk	past	Magician			like this; sideways property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	cover	past · passive		Magician		with strong armour; upon Magician's back	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with armour=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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