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title: The Magician warns the Fisherman to pull «twice a day and twice a ni… — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the S… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Magician warns the Fisherman to pull «twice a day and twice a night for ever ... Who acts: Magician, Fisherman. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3: the Moon pulls the sea, and how tides really work» of the books course of Mova's primary school wi
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# Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3: the Moon pulls the sea, and how tides really work, sentence 24

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The Magician warns the Fisherman to pull «twice a day and twice a night for ever ...

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**Who acts:** Magician, Fisherman · **What happens:** warn, pull · **To what, where:** Fisherman

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3: the Moon pulls the sea, and how tides really work» 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: who acts (Magician, Fisherman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:092-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea.lesson:24
# text = The Magician warns the Fisherman to pull «twice a day and twice a night for ever ...
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 092-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea.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
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	warns	warn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:acl
8	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
9	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	15	advmod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	9	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	15	nmod	_	_
18	...	...	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **warn** *speech: warn* | present | the Magician | the Fisherman |  |  | night |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S\_INF»: agent=Agent fisherman=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **pull** | to-infinitive | the Fisherman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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:092-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea.lesson:24`.

**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. **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/).

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