Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 79

One side of his great shell touched the beach at Sarawak; the other touched the beach at Pahang; and he was taller than the smoke of three volcanoes!

Who acts: One side, other, side, three volcanoes · What happens: touch, be, smoke · To what, where: beach, Sarawak, Pahang

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 (One side, other, side, three volcanoes), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 side	nummod
2	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 touched	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 shell	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 shell	nmod:poss
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shell	amod
6	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 side	nmod
7	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 beach	det
9	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 touched	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 Sarawak	case
11	Sarawak	Sarawak	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 touched	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 touched	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 other	det
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 touched	nsubj
15	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 touched	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 beach	det
17	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 touched	obj
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 Pahang	case
19	Pahang	Pahang	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 touched	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 taller	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 taller	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 taller	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 taller	cop
24	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 touched	conj
25	than	than	ADP	_	27 smoke	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 smoke	det
27	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 taller	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 volcanoes	case
29	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 volcanoes	nummod
30	volcanoes	volcano	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 smoke	nmod
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 touched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	touch	past	One side of side's great shell	the beach	Sarawak		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme beach=Co-Theme
2	touch	past	the other	the beach	Pahang		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme beach=Co-Theme
3	is	past	side			than the smoke of three volcanoes; tall property	tree rules
4	smoke		three volcanoes				nom smoke «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent

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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