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title: But once a year all Pau Ammas must shake off their hard armour and b… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: But once a year all Pau Ammas must shake off their hard armour and be soft-to remind them of what the Eldest Magician could do. Who acts: Pau, Eldest Magician. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Crab That Played With the Sea, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 147

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But once a year all Pau Ammas must shake off their hard armour and be soft-to remind them of what the Eldest Magician could do.

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**Who acts:** Pau, Eldest Magician · **What happens:** shake off, be, remind, do · **To what, where:** hard armour, babies

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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 (Pau, Eldest Magician), 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:pg2781:11:147
# text = But once a year all Pau Ammas must shake off their hard armour and be soft-to remind them of what the Eldest Magician could do.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	9	advmod	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
6	Pau	Pau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	Ammas	Ammas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	shake	shake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	off	off	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	armour	armour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
16	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	remind	remind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	iobj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	obl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	Eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	25	amod	_	_
25	Magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shake off** | must | Pau | babies's hard armour |  |  |  | all, once *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent armour=Patient |
| 2 | **be** | infinitive | Pau *not said here* |  |  |  |  | soft *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **remind** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Pau *not said here* |  | babies *= baby* |  |  |  | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent they=Recipient of what=Topic |
| 4 | **do** | could | the Eldest Magician |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «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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