--- title: The Fisherman of the Moon is «spinning a fishing-line with which he… — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the S… · tree and pragmatics description: The Fisherman of the Moon is «spinning a fishing-line with which he hopes one day to catch the world», and the Rat of the Moon «always bites the old Fisherman's line as fast as it is made». Who acts: Fisherman, place, Rat. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fisherman, place, Rat), 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:19 # text = The Fisherman of the Moon is «spinning a fishing-line with which he hopes one day to catch the world», and the Rat of the Moon «always bites the old Fisherman's line as fast as it is made». # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Fisherman fisherman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 « « PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 8 spinning spin VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 fishing fishing NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ _ 12 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 obl _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 hopes hope VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 17 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl:unmarked _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 » » PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 24 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 « « PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ _ 32 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 33 advmod _ _ 33 bites bite VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 Fisherman fisherman NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod:poss _ _ 37 's 's PART POS _ 36 case _ _ 38 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 39 as as ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 33 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 41 as as SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 42 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj:pass _ _ 43 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 aux:pass _ _ 44 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 advcl _ _ 45 » » PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 46 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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 | **spin** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the Fisherman of the Moon | a fishing line | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent line=Theme | | 2 | **hope** *in a quote* | present | place | | | | | with a fishing line | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 3 | **catch** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | place *not said here* | the world | | | day | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Theme | | 4 | **bite** *in a quote* | present | the Rat of the Moon | the old Fisherman's line | | | | always, fast *property* | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Patient | | 5 | **make** *in a quote* | present · passive | | Rat | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | 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:19`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R8-pos-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…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/90-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician/18/) - next →: [Just So Stories, The Crab that Played…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/90-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/90-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician/)