Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 89

Give me back my hard shell and let me go back to Pusat Tasek, and I will only stir out once a day and once a night to get my food.’

Who acts: you, me, I · What happens: give back, let, go back, stir out, get · To what, where: hard shell, me, food

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, 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	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	back	back	ADP	_	1 Give	compound:prt
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 shell	nmod:poss
5	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shell	amod
6	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 let	cc
8	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Give	conj
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 let	obj
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 let	xcomp
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 go	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 Pusat	case
13	Pusat	Pusat	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 back	obl
14	Tasek	Tasek	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Pusat	flat
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 stir	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 stir	cc
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 stir	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 stir	aux
19	only	only	ADV	_	20 stir	advmod
20	stir	stir	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Give	conj
21	out	out	ADP	_	20 stir	compound:prt
22	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	20 stir	advmod
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 day	det
24	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 once	obl:unmarked
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 night	cc
26	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	28 night	advmod
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 night	det
28	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 once	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 get	mark
30	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 stir	advcl
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 food	nmod:poss
32	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 get	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Give	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give back	imperative	you not said here	my hard shell	me		vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient shell=Theme
2	let	infinitive	you not said here	me			tree rules
3	go back	infinitive	me not said here				vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
4	stir out	future	I			once property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	get	to-infinitive	I not said here	my food			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus

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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