Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 63

Then the Eldest Magician slid his arm up to the shoulder through the deep warm water, and under the roots of the Wonderful Tree he touched the broad back of Pau Amma the Crab.

Who acts: Eldest Magician, Magician · What happens: slide up, touch · To what, where: arm, deep warm water, broad back, roots

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, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 slid	advmod
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 slid	nsubj
5	slid	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 arm	nmod:poss
7	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 slid	obj
8	up	up	ADV	_	5 slid	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 shoulder	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 shoulder	det
11	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 slid	obl
12	through	through	ADP	_	16 water	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 water	det
14	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 water	amod
15	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 water	amod
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 slid	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 touched	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 touched	cc
19	under	under	ADP	_	21 roots	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 roots	det
21	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 touched	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 Tree	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Tree	det
24	Wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 Tree	amod
25	Tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 touched	obl
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 touched	nsubj
27	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 slid	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 back	det
29	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 back	amod
30	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 touched	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 Pau	case
32	Pau	Pau	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 back	nmod
33	Amma	Amma	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Pau	flat
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Crab	det
35	Crab	Crab	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Pau	appos
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 slid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slide up	past	the Eldest Magician	Magician's arm		the deep warm water	then	to the shoulder	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent arm=Theme to shoulder=Initial_Location through water=Trajectory
2	touch	past	Magician	the broad back of Pau		the roots		of the Wonderful Tree	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme back=Co-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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