Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 77
There was nobody in the world so big as Pau Amma--for he was the King Crab of all Crabs.
Who acts: Pau · What happens: be
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), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 big | cop |
| 3 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 was | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 world | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 world | det |
| 6 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | obl |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 big | advmod |
| 8 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 Pau | case |
| 10 | Pau | Pau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 big | obl |
| 11 | Amma | Amma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Pau | flat |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 Crab | punct |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 Crab | case |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 Crab | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 Crab | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Crab | det |
| 17 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Crab | nmod:desc |
| 18 | Crab | Crab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 big | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Crabs | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 Crabs | det |
| 21 | Crabs | Crab | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 Crab | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 big | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | as Pau; big property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Pau | for the Crab; of all Crabs; King nmod:desc | 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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