Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 64
And Pau Amma settled down at the touch, and all the Sea rose up as water rises in a basin when you put your hand into it.
Who acts: Pau, Sea, water, you · What happens: settle down, rise up, rise, put · To what, where: touch, basin, hand, Sea
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 (Pau, Sea, water, you), 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 settled | cc |
| 2 | Pau | Pau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 settled | nsubj |
| 3 | Amma | Amma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Pau | flat |
| 4 | settled | settle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 settled | compound:prt |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 touch | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 touch | det |
| 8 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 settled | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 rose | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 rose | cc |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 rose | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Sea | det |
| 13 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 rose | nsubj |
| 14 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 settled | conj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 rose | compound:prt |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 rises | mark |
| 17 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rises | nsubj |
| 18 | rises | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 rose | advcl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 basin | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 basin | det |
| 21 | basin | basin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rises | obl |
| 22 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 put | advmod |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 put | nsubj |
| 24 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 rises | advcl |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 hand | nmod:poss |
| 26 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 put | obj |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 put | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 settled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | settle down | past | Pau | the touch | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | rise up | past | the Sea | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | rise | present | water | a basin | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in basin=Location | ||||
| 4 | put | present | you | your hand | Sea | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal |
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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