Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 86
‘Shall I ask the Man here to cut you with kris?
Who acts: I · What happens: ask, cut, kris · To what, where: Man, you
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 (I), 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 ask | punct |
| 2 | Shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 ask | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 ask | nsubj |
| 4 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Man | det |
| 6 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ask | obj |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 ask | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 cut | mark |
| 9 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ask | advcl |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 cut | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 kris | case |
| 12 | kris | kris | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 cut | conj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | shall | I | the Man | here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient | |||
| 2 | cut | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product | ||||
| 3 | kris | infinitive | I not said here | 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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