Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 92

I am so big that I can only hide in Pusat Tasek, and if I go anywhere else, all soft as I am now, the sharks and the dogfish will eat me.

Who acts: I, sharks · What happens: be, hide, go, eat · To what, where: Pusat, me

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, sharks), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 big	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 big	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 big	advmod
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 hide	mark
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 hide	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 hide	aux
8	only	only	ADV	_	9 hide	advmod
9	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 big	advcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 Pusat	case
11	Pusat	Pusat	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 hide	obl
12	Tasek	Tasek	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Pusat	flat
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 soft	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 soft	cc
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 go	mark
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 go	nsubj
17	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 soft	advcl
18	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	17 go	advmod
19	else	else	ADV	_	18 anywhere	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct
21	all	all	ADV	_	22 soft	advmod
22	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 big	conj
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 am	mark
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 am	nsubj
25	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 soft	advcl
26	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 am	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sharks	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sharks	det
29	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 eat	nsubj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 dogfish	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 dogfish	det
32	dogfish	dogfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sharks	conj
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 eat	aux
34	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 big	parataxis
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 eat	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 big	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	I			big property	tree rules
2	hide	can	I		Pusat		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in pusat=Location
3	go a condition, not said to happen	present	I			anywhere property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	be		I not said here			all property	tree rules
5	eat	future	the sharks and the dogfish	me			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient

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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