Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 73

Then Pau Amma, deep down below, laughed and said, ‘I did not know I was so important.

Who acts: Pau, I · What happens: laugh, say, not know, be · 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 (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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 laughed	advmod
2	Pau	Pau	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 laughed	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 laughed	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 below	punct
9	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 laughed	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 know	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 know	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 know	nsubj
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 know	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 know	advmod
17	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 important	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 important	cop
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 important	advmod
21	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 know	ccomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	Pau	then	below property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	Pau not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not know	past · do-support	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	past	I		important property	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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