Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 84

‘Now, let me try,’ and he made a Magic with his left hand--with just the little finger of his left hand--and--lo and behold, Best Beloved, Pau Amma’s hard, blue-green-black shell fell off him as a husk falls off a cocoa-nut, and Pau Amma was left all soft--soft as the little crabs that you sometimes find on the beach, Best Beloved.

Who acts: you, me, Pau, hard black shell, husk · What happens: let, try, make, fall off, leave, find · To what, where: me, Magic, Pau, cocoa nut, little crabs, beach

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 (you, me, Pau, hard black shell), 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	_	4 let	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 let	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Now	punct
4	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 made	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 made	nsubj
11	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 let	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 Magic	det
13	Magic	Magic	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 made	obj
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 hand	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hand	nmod:poss
16	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hand	amod
17	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 made	obl
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	23 finger	punct
19	with	with	ADP	_	23 finger	case
20	just	just	ADV	_	23 finger	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 finger	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 finger	amod
23	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 made	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 hand	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 hand	nmod:poss
26	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 hand	amod
27	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 finger	nmod
28	--	--	PUNCT	_	31 lo	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 lo	cc
30	--	--	PUNCT	_	31 lo	punct
31	lo	lo	INTJ	_	4 let	xcomp
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 behold	cc
33	behold	behold	INTJ	_	31 lo	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 Beloved	punct
35	Best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	36 Beloved	amod
36	Beloved	Beloved	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 let	parataxis
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 fell	punct
38	Pau	Pau	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 shell	nmod:poss
39	Amma	Amma	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Pau	flat
40	’s	's	PART	_	38 Pau	case
41	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 shell	amod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 hard	punct
43	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 green	amod
44	-	-	PUNCT	_	43 blue	punct
45	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 black	amod
46	-	-	PUNCT	_	45 green	punct
47	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 shell	amod
48	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 fell	nsubj
49	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 Beloved	acl:relcl
50	off	off	ADP	_	51 him	case
51	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 fell	obl
52	as	as	SCONJ	_	55 falls	mark
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 husk	det
54	husk	husk	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 falls	nsubj
55	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 fell	advcl
56	off	off	ADP	_	55 falls	compound:prt
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	60 nut	det
58	cocoa	cocoa	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 nut	compound
59	-	-	PUNCT	_	58 cocoa	punct
60	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 falls	obj
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 left	punct
62	and	and	CCONJ	_	66 left	cc
63	Pau	Pau	PROPN	Number=Sing	66 left	nsubj
64	Amma	Amma	PROPN	Number=Sing	63 Pau	flat
65	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	66 left	aux:pass
66	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	55 falls	conj
67	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	66 left	obj
68	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	67 all	amod
69	--	--	PUNCT	_	70 soft	punct
70	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	68 soft	conj
71	as	as	ADP	_	74 crabs	case
72	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	74 crabs	det
73	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	74 crabs	amod
74	crabs	crab	NOUN	Number=Plur	70 soft	obl
75	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	78 find	obj
76	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	78 find	nsubj
77	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	78 find	advmod
78	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	74 crabs	acl:relcl
79	on	on	ADP	_	81 beach	case
80	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	81 beach	det
81	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	78 find	obl
82	,	,	PUNCT	_	84 Beloved	punct
83	Best	Good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	84 Beloved	flat
84	Beloved	Beloved	PROPN	Number=Sing	81 beach	appos
85	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	me		now		tree rules
2	try	infinitive	me not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	make	past	Pau	a Magic			with Pau's left hand; with the little finger of Pau's left hand	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magic=Product
4	fall off	past	Pau's hard black shell	Pau				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient he=Extent
5	fall off	present	a husk	a cocoa nut				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient nut=Extent
6	leave	past · passive		Pau				vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme all=Attribute
7	find	present	you	the little crabs	the beach		sometimes property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic

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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