Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 85

‘Indeed, you are very important,’ said the Eldest Magician.

Who acts: you, Eldest Magician · What happens: be, say · 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 (you, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 important	punct
2	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	7 important	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Indeed	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 important	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 important	cop
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 important	advmod
7	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 important	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 important	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Magician	det
12	Eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 Magician	amod
13	Magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	you					important, indeed property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the Eldest Magician						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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