Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 66
‘Now I know who has been playing with the Sea;’ and he called out, ‘What are you doing, Pau Amma?’
Who acts: I, Magician, you · What happens: know, play, call out, do · To what, where: Pau · 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 (I, Magician, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 know | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 playing | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 playing | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 playing | aux |
| 8 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 know | ccomp |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 Sea | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Sea | det |
| 11 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 playing | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 called | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 called | nsubj |
| 16 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 called | compound:prt |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 doing | punct |
| 19 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 doing | punct |
| 20 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 doing | obj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 doing | aux |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 doing | nsubj |
| 23 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 called | advcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Pau | punct |
| 25 | Pau | Pau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 doing | obj |
| 26 | Amma | Amma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Pau | flat |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | play | present · perfect · progressive | with the Sea | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with sea=Co-Agent | |||||
| 3 | call out speech: assert | past | Magician | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | do | present · progressive | you | Pau | 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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