--- title: The animals are called «All-the-Elephant-there-was», «All-the-Cow-th… — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the S… · tree and pragmatics description: The animals are called «All-the-Elephant-there-was», «All-the-Cow-there-was» and so on, because there was only one of each at the start. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 1: the Eldest Magician and the sea that will not behave» of the books course of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/90-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [Just So Stories, The Crab that Played…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/90-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician/) / 11 # Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 1: the Eldest Magician and the sea that will not behave, sentence 11 The animals are called «All-the-Elephant-there-was», «All-the-Cow-there-was» and so on, because there was only one of each at the start. **What happens:** call, be · **To what, where:** animals, one · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 1: the Eldest Magician and the sea that will not behave» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:090-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician.lesson:11 # text = The animals are called «All-the-Elephant-there-was», «All-the-Cow-there-was» and so on, because there was only one of each at the start. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 090-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 6 All all DET DT PronType=Tot 4 conj _ _ 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ _ 10 Elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 flat _ _ 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ _ 12 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 10 conj _ _ 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 « « PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 18 All all DET DT PronType=Tot 4 conj _ _ 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ _ 22 Cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ _ 24 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 22 acl _ _ 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 26 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 27 » » PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 so so ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 on on ADV RB _ 24 conj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 because because SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:mark 33 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 34 expl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:expl 34 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 35 only only ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 advcl _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 36 nmod _ _ 39 at at ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 start start NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | present · passive | | the animals | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 2 | **is** | past | | | | | | on *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | past | | one | | | | of each | 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. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:090-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician.lesson:11`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Just So Stories, The Crab that Played…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/90-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician/10/) - next →: [Just So Stories, The Crab that Played…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/90-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/90-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician/)