Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 82

Pau Amma rolled his eyes and waved his legs, but he could only stir up the Sea, because, though he was a King Crab, he was nothing more than a Crab, and the Eldest Magician laughed.

Who acts: Pau, Eldest Magician · What happens: roll, wave, stir up, be, laugh · To what, where: eyes, legs, Sea, Crab, nothing

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, Eldest Magician), 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	Pau	Pau	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 rolled	nsubj
2	Amma	Amma	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Pau	flat
3	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 eyes	nmod:poss
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rolled	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 waved	cc
7	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rolled	conj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 legs	nmod:poss
9	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 waved	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stir	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 stir	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 stir	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 stir	aux
14	only	only	ADV	_	15 stir	advmod
15	stir	stir	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 rolled	conj
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 stir	compound:prt
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Sea	det
18	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 stir	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Crab	punct
20	because	because	SCONJ	_	27 Crab	mark
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Crab	punct
22	though	though	SCONJ	_	27 Crab	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 Crab	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 Crab	cop
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 Crab	det
26	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Crab	nmod:desc
27	Crab	Crab	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 stir	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 nothing	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 nothing	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 nothing	cop
31	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	27 Crab	appos
32	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 nothing	amod
33	than	than	ADP	_	35 Crab	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 Crab	det
35	Crab	Crab	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 more	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 laughed	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 laughed	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Magician	det
39	Eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	40 Magician	amod
40	Magician	Magician	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 laughed	nsubj
41	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rolled	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rolled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	roll	past	Pau	Pau's eyes		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Agent
2	wave	past	Pau not said here	Pau's legs		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
3	stir up	could	Pau	the Sea		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition sea=Patient
4	is a	past	Pau	a Crab	King nmod:desc	tree rules
5	is a	past	Pau	nothing		tree rules
6	laugh	past	the Eldest Magician			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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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