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title: And the play went on till there were no more Animals left without or… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: And the play went on till there were no more Animals left without orders; and the Eldest Magician wiped the fine dust off his hands and walked about the world to see how the Animals were playing. Who acts: play, more Animals, Eldest Magician, Animals. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipli
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# Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 14

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And the play went on till there were no more Animals left without orders; and the Eldest Magician wiped the fine dust off his hands and walked about the world to see how the Animals were playing.

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**Who acts:** play, more Animals, Eldest Magician, Animals · **What happens:** go on, be, leave, wipe, walk, see · **To what, where:** more Animals, fine dust, hands · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (play, more Animals, Eldest Magician, Animals), 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:pg2781:11:14
# text = And the play went on till there were no more Animals left without orders; and the Eldest Magician wiped the fine dust off his hands and walked about the world to see how the Animals were playing.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
8	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	no	no	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	Animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
12	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	without	without	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
19	Magician	Magician	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	wiped	wipe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	off	off	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
29	about	about	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
34	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	38	advmod	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	Animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
37	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go on** | past | the play |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | past | more Animals |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **leave** | participle |  | more Animals *not said here* |  |  |  | without orders | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **wipe** | past | the Eldest Magician | the fine dust |  | play's hands |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent dust=Theme off hand=Trajectory |
| 5 | **walk** | past | the Eldest Magician *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about the world | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about world=Trajectory |
| 6 | **see** | to-infinitive | the Eldest Magician *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 7 | **play** | past · progressive | the Animals |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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