Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 6

He took the Cow--All-the Cow-there-was--and said, ‘Play at being a Cow,’ and All-the-Cow-there-was played.

Who acts: Magician · What happens: take, be, play · To what, where: Cow, All · 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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Cow	det
4	Cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
5	--	--	PUNCT	_	6 All	punct
6	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 took	obl
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 there	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 there	det
9	Cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 there	nsubj
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 there	punct
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 took	parataxis
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 there	punct
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 said	cop
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 there	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Play	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 Play	punct
19	Play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
20	at	at	ADP	_	23 Cow	case
21	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 Cow	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 Cow	det
23	Cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Play	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Play	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 Play	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 played	cc
27	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 played	nsubj:pass
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 Cow	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Cow	det
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 the	punct
31	Cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 All	appos
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 there	punct
33	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 Cow	advmod
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 there	punct
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 played	aux:pass
36	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 took	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	take	past	Magician		the Cow	All obl	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument cow=Destination
2	be speech: assert	past				say property	tree rules
3	play	infinitive					vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	gerund				at a Cow	tree rules
5	play	past · passive		All			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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