Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 97
Then Pau Amma said, ‘That is good, but I do not choose yet.
Who acts: Pau, That, I · What happens: say, be, not choose · 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 (Pau, That, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | Pau | Pau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 3 | Amma | Amma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Pau | flat |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 good | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 good | punct |
| 7 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 good | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 good | cop |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 said | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 choose | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 choose | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 choose | nsubj |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 choose | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 choose | advmod |
| 15 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 good | conj |
| 16 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 15 choose | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Pau | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | That | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not choose | present · do-support | I | yet | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: 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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