Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 67

And Pau Amma, deep down below, answered, ‘Once a day and once a night I go out to look for my food.

Who acts: Pau, I · What happens: answer, go out, look

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, I), 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	_	9 answered	cc
2	Pau	Pau	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 answered	nsubj
3	Amma	Amma	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Pau	flat
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 below	punct
5	deep	deep	ADV	_	7 below	advmod
6	down	down	ADV	_	7 below	advmod
7	below	below	ADV	_	9 answered	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 below	punct
9	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct
11	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct
12	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 answered	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 day	det
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Once	obl:unmarked
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 go	cc
16	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	20 go	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 night	det
18	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 go	obl:unmarked
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 go	nsubj
20	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 answered	conj
21	out	out	ADV	_	20 go	advmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 look	mark
23	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 go	advcl
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 food	case
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 food	nmod:poss
26	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 look	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Pau		below, once property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go out	present	I	night	once, out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	look	to-infinitive	I not said here		for my food	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for food=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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