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title: And if ‘Beavers’ took their cargoes To Penang instead of Lagos, Or a… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: And if ‘Beavers’ took their cargoes To Penang instead of Lagos, Or a fat Shaw-Savill bore Passengers to Singapore, Or a White Star were to try a Little trip to Sourabaya, Or a B.S.A. went on Past Natal to Cheribon, Then great Mr. Lloyds would come With a wire and drag them home! Who acts: Beavers, f
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# Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 160

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And if ‘Beavers’ took their cargoes To Penang instead of Lagos, Or a fat Shaw-Savill bore Passengers to Singapore, Or a White Star were to try a Little trip to Sourabaya, Or a B.S.A. went on Past Natal to Cheribon, Then great Mr. Lloyds would come With a wire and drag them home!

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**Who acts:** Beavers, fat Shaw, White Star, B.S.A, great Lloyds · **What happens:** take, bear, try, go, come, drag · **To what, where:** cargoes, Penang, Passengers, Singapore, Little trip, Cheribon

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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 (Beavers, fat Shaw, White Star, B.S.A), 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:pg2781:11:160
# text = And if ‘Beavers’ took their cargoes To Penang instead of Lagos, Or a fat Shaw-Savill bore Passengers to Singapore, Or a White Star were to try a Little trip to Sourabaya, Or a B.S.A. went on Past Natal to Cheribon, Then great Mr. Lloyds would come With a wire and drag them home!
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Beavers	Beaver	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	cargoes	cargo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	To	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Penang	Penang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	13	case	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	Lagos	Lagos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Shaw	Shaw	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Savill	Savill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
22	Passengers	passenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Singapore	Singapore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
26	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	White	White	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	Star	Star	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
30	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Sourabaya	Sourabaya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
39	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	B.S.A	B.S.A	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	41	punct	_	_
43	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
44	on	on	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	Past	past	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	Natal	Natal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
47	to	to	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	Cheribon	Cheribon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
50	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	55	advmod	_	_
51	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
52	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	nmod:desc	_	_
53	Lloyds	Lloyds	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	55	nsubj	_	_
54	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	55	aux	_	_
55	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
56	With	with	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	wire	wire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
60	drag	drag	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	55	conj	_	_
61	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	obj	_	_
62	home	home	ADV	RB	_	60	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Beavers | Bibby's cargoes | Penang |  |  | instead Lagos | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cargo=Theme to penang=Destination |
| 2 | **bear** | past | a fat Shaw and Savill | Passengers | Singapore |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passenger=Patient |
| 3 | **try** | past | a White Star | a Little trip |  |  |  | to Sourabaya | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trip=Eventuality |
| 4 | **go** | past | a B.S.A |  | Cheribon | Natal |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to cheribon=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **come** | would | great Lloyds  Mr. |  |  |  | then | with a wire | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **drag** | infinitive | great Lloyds  Mr. *not said here* | Passengers *= passenger* |  |  |  | home *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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