Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 81
‘Now,’ said the Magician, ‘make a Magic, Pau Amma, to show that you are really important.’
Who acts: Magician, you · What happens: say, make, show, be · To what, where: Magic · 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, you), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Magician | det |
| 7 | Magician | Magician | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 make | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 make | punct |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 Magic | det |
| 12 | Magic | Magic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 make | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Pau | punct |
| 14 | Pau | Pau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Magic | conj |
| 15 | Amma | Amma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Pau | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 show | punct |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 show | mark |
| 18 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 make | parataxis |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 important | mark |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 important | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 important | cop |
| 22 | really | really | ADV | _ | 23 important | advmod |
| 23 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 show | ccomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Magician | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | make | infinitive | a Magic and Pau | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset magic=Product | |||||
| 3 | show | to-infinitive | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is | present | you | 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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