--- title: So the Fisherman of the Moon lets his line down and pulls the whole… — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the S… · tree and pragmatics description: So the Fisherman of the Moon lets his line down and pulls the whole sea, and the canoe whizzes back into the Perak river. Who acts: Fisherman, canoe. 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 --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3: the Moon pulls the sea, and how tides really work, sentence 9 So the Fisherman of the Moon lets his line down and pulls the whole sea, and the canoe whizzes back into the Perak river. **Who acts:** Fisherman, canoe · **What happens:** let down, pull, whiz back · **To what, where:** line, whole sea, Perak river 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 (Fisherman, canoe), 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:9 # text = So the Fisherman of the Moon lets his line down and pulls the whole sea, and the canoe whizzes back into the Perak river. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×2 1 So so ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Fisherman fisherman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 7 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 down down ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 pulls pull VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 canoe canoe NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 whizzes whiz VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 21 back back ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 into into ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 Perak Perak PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let down** | present | the Fisherman of the Moon | Fisherman's line | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Theme | | 2 | **pull** | present | the Fisherman of the Moon *not said here* | the whole sea | | | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Theme | | 3 | **whiz back** | present | the canoe | | | the Perak river | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into river=Destination | 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:9`. **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): 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…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/92-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea/8/) - next →: [Just So Stories, The Crab that Played…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/92-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/92-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea/)