--- title: He grumbles; the Magician calls him lazy and says something unkind a… — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the S… · tree and pragmatics description: He grumbles; the Magician calls him lazy and says something unkind about his children, and the Man answers: then let the Sea work for him twice a day for ever. Who acts: Man, Magician. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3: the Moon pulls the sea, and h --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/92-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea/8/) [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/92-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea/) / 8 # Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3: the Moon pulls the sea, and how tides really work, sentence 8 He grumbles; the Magician calls him lazy and says something unkind about his children, and the Man answers: then let the Sea work for him twice a day for ever. **Who acts:** Man, Magician · **What happens:** grumble, call, say, answer, let · **To what, where:** Man, something, Sea work · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Man, Magician), 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:8 # text = He grumbles; the Magician calls him lazy and says something unkind about his children, and the Man answers: then let the Sea work for him twice a day 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 grumbles grumble VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 ; ; PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Magician magician PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 calls call VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 7 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 lazy lazy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 11 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 10 obj _ _ 12 unkind unkind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 13 about about ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 Man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 answers answer VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 21 : : PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 22 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 23 advmod _ _ 23 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 20 parataxis _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 Sea Sea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ _ 29 twice twice ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 31 advmod _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl:unmarked _ _ 32 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 23 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grumble** *speech: other* | present | Man | | | | | | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **call** | present | the Magician | | Man | | | lazy *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Magician *not said here* | something | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic | | 4 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | the Man | | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **let** | infinitive | | the Sea work | | | then; day | for Man | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent work=Theme for he=Asset | 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:092-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea.lesson:8`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [Just So Stories, The Crab that Played…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/92-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea/7/) - next →: [Just So Stories, The Crab that Played…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/92-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/92-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea/)