Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 78
Not a common Crab, but a King Crab.
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: 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 Crab | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 Crab | det |
| 3 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Crab | amod |
| 4 | Crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Crab | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 Crab | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Crab | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Crab | compound |
| 9 | Crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Crab | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Crab | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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