--- title: If you choose, I will make a Magic and I will give you this pair of… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: If you choose, I will make a Magic and I will give you this pair of scissors, very sharp and strong, so that you and your children can eat cocoa-nuts like this all day long when you come up from the Sea to the land; or you can dig a Pusat Tasek for yourself with the scissors that belong to you when --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/11/107/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Just so stories](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/) / [The Crab That Played With the Sea](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/11/) / 107 # Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 107 If you choose, I will make a Magic and I will give you this pair of scissors, very sharp and strong, so that you and your children can eat cocoa-nuts like this all day long when you come up from the Sea to the land; or you can dig a Pusat Tasek for yourself with the scissors that belong to you when there is no stone or hole near by; and when the earth is too hard, by the help of these same scissors you can run up a tree.’ **Who acts:** you, I, scissors, stone, earth, help · **What happens:** choose, make, give, eat, come up, dig · **To what, where:** Magic, pair, you, cocoa nuts, Sea, Pusat Tasek This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Crab That Played With the Sea. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, scissors, stone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2781:11:107 # text = If you choose, I will make a Magic and I will give you this pair of scissors, very sharp and strong, so that you and your children can eat cocoa-nuts like this all day long when you come up from the Sea to the land; or you can dig a Pusat Tasek for yourself with the scissors that belong to you when there is no stone or hole near by; and when the earth is too hard, by the help of these same scissors you can run up a tree.’ 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 choose choose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Magic Magic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 iobj _ _ 15 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 16 det _ _ 16 pair pair NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 scissors scissors NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 very very ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 parataxis _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 25 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 32 mark _ _ 26 that that SCONJ IN _ 25 fixed _ _ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 conj _ _ 31 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 parataxis _ _ 33 cocoa cocoa NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 nuts nut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 36 like like ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 35 nmod _ _ 38 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 39 det _ _ 39 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl:unmarked _ _ 40 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 32 advmod _ _ 41 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 43 advmod _ _ 42 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 advcl _ _ 44 up up ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 45 from from ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 Sea Sea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 obl _ _ 48 to to ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 51 ; ; PUNCT : _ 55 punct _ _ 52 or or CCONJ CC _ 55 cc _ _ 53 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 55 nsubj _ _ 54 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 55 aux _ _ 55 dig dig VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 56 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 58 det _ _ 57 Pusat Pusat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 58 compound _ _ 58 Tasek Tasek PROPN NNP Number=Sing 55 obj _ _ 59 for for ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 60 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 55 obl _ _ 61 with with ADP IN _ 63 case _ _ 62 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 63 det _ _ 63 scissors scissors NOUN NNS Number=Plur 55 obl _ _ 64 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 65 nsubj _ _ 65 belong belong VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 63 acl:relcl _ _ 66 to to ADP IN _ 67 case _ _ 67 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 55 obl _ _ 68 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 70 advmod _ _ 69 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 70 expl _ _ 70 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 55 advcl _ _ 71 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 72 det _ _ 72 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 70 nsubj _ _ 73 or or CCONJ CC _ 74 cc _ _ 74 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 72 conj _ _ 75 near near ADV RB _ 72 advmod _ _ 76 by by ADP IN _ 75 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 77 ; ; PUNCT , _ 84 punct _ _ 78 and and CCONJ CC _ 84 cc _ _ 79 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 84 advmod _ _ 80 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 81 det _ _ 81 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 84 nsubj _ _ 82 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 84 cop _ _ 83 too too ADV RB _ 84 advmod _ _ 84 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 85 , , PUNCT , _ 88 punct _ _ 86 by by ADP IN _ 88 case _ _ 87 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 88 det _ _ 88 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 95 nsubj _ _ 89 of of ADP IN _ 92 case _ _ 90 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 92 det _ _ 91 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 92 amod _ _ 92 scissors scissors NOUN NNS Number=Plur 88 nmod _ _ 93 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 95 nsubj _ _ 94 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 95 aux _ _ 95 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 84 parataxis _ _ 96 up up ADP RP _ 95 compound:prt _ _ 97 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 98 det _ _ 98 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 95 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 99 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 100 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **choose** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **make** | future | I | a Magic | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magic=Product | | 3 | **give** | future | I | this pair of scissors | you | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient pair=Theme | | 4 | **eat** | can | you | cocoa nuts | | | | like this; long *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Patient | | 5 | **come up** | present | you | | | the Sea | | to the land | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from sea=Initial\_Location to land=Destination | | 6 | **dig** | can | you | a Pusat Tasek | you | | | for yourself; with the scissors | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.instsrument»: agent=Agent tasek=Theme with scissors=Instrument | | 7 | **belong** | present | the scissors | | | | | | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **does** | present | no stone or hole | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **is** | present | the earth | | | | | hard *property* | tree rules | | 10 | **run up** | can | the help of this same scissors | a tree | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tree=Trajectory | | 11 | **help** | | | this same scissors | | | | | nom help «act transitive»: of=patient | 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. **Text:** «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 2781 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/11/106/) - next →: [sentence 108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/11/108/) - ↑ back to [The Crab That Played With the Sea](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/11/)