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title: Then the Eldest Magician made a Magic with the right hand, with all… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the Eldest Magician made a Magic with the right hand, with all five fingers of his right hand, and lo and behold, Best Beloved, Pau Amma grew smaller and smaller and smaller, till at last there was only a little green crab swimming in the water alongside the canoe, crying in a very small voice,
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# Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 113

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Then the Eldest Magician made a Magic with the right hand, with all five fingers of his right hand, and lo and behold, Best Beloved, Pau Amma grew smaller and smaller and smaller, till at last there was only a little green crab swimming in the water alongside the canoe, crying in a very small voice, ‘Give me the scissors!’

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**Who acts:** Eldest Magician, Pau, little green crab · **What happens:** make, grow, swim, cry, give · **To what, where:** Magic, Best Beloved, water, small voice, scissors, me

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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 (Eldest Magician, Pau, little green crab), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg2781:11:113
# text = Then the Eldest Magician made a Magic with the right hand, with all five fingers of his right hand, and lo and behold, Best Beloved, Pau Amma grew smaller and smaller and smaller, till at last there was only a little green crab swimming in the water alongside the canoe, crying in a very small voice, ‘Give me the scissors!’
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
4	Magician	Magician	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Magic	Magic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
15	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	Best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	28	amod	_	_
28	Beloved	Beloved	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	Pau	Pau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
31	Amma	Amma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	flat	_	_
32	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
33	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	32	xcomp	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	33	conj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	till	till	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	at	at	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	conj	_	_
42	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	43	expl	_	_
43	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	acl:relcl	_	_
44	only	only	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
46	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
47	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	crab	crab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
49	swimming	swim	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	48	acl	_	_
50	in	in	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
53	alongside	alongside	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
57	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	49	conj	_	_
58	in	in	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
59	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
60	very	very	ADV	RB	_	61	advmod	_	_
61	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	62	amod	_	_
62	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
64	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	65	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	Give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	parataxis	_	_
66	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	65	iobj	_	_
67	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	68	det	_	_
68	scissors	scissors	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	65	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	48	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the Eldest Magician | a Magic |  |  | then | with the right hand; with all five fingers of Magician's right hand | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magic=Product |
| 2 | **grow** | past | Pau | Best Beloved *not said here* |  |  |  | small *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location beloved=Theme |
| 3 | **swim** | gerund | a little green crab *not said here* |  |  | the water |  | alongside the canoe | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Trajectory |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | a little green crab *not said here* |  |  | a small voice |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in voice=Location |
| 5 | **give** | infinitive |  | the scissors | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient scissors=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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**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.

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