Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 7

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

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

Pragmatics

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