Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 90

And the Eldest Magician said, ‘No, Pau Amma, I will not give you back your shell, for you will grow bigger and prouder and stronger, and perhaps you will forget your promise, and you will play with the Sea once more.

Who acts: Eldest Magician, I, you, your · What happens: say, not give back, grow, forget, play, promise · To what, where: shell, you, promise · 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 (Eldest Magician, I, you, your), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Magician	det
3	Eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 Magician	amod
4	Magician	Magician	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 give	punct
7	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 give	punct
8	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	16 give	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 No	punct
10	Pau	Pau	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 give	vocative
11	Amma	Amma	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Pau	flat
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Pau	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 give	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 give	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 give	advmod
16	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 give	iobj
18	back	back	ADP	_	16 give	compound:prt
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 shell	nmod:poss
20	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 give	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 grow	punct
22	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 grow	mark
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 grow	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 grow	aux
25	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 give	advcl
26	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 grow	xcomp
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 prouder	cc
28	prouder	proud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 bigger	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 stronger	cc
30	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 bigger	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 forget	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 forget	cc
33	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	36 forget	advmod
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 forget	nsubj
35	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 forget	aux
36	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
37	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 promise	nmod:poss
38	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 forget	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 play	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 play	cc
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 play	nsubj
42	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 play	aux
43	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 forget	parataxis
44	with	with	ADP	_	46 Sea	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 Sea	det
46	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 play	obl
47	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	48 more	advmod
48	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	43 play	advmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Eldest Magician				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not give back	future	I	your shell	you	Pau vocative	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient shell=Theme
3	grow	future	you			big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	forget	future	you	your promise		perhaps property	tree rules
5	play	future	you			with the Sea	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with sea=Co-Agent
6	promise		your				nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=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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