--- title: They stepped into the canoe; the little girl-daughter came with them… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: They stepped into the canoe; the little girl-daughter came with them; and the Man took his kris--a curving, wavy dagger with a blade like a flame,--and they pushed out on the Perak river. Who acts: Animals, little girl daughter, Man. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Crab That --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/11/41/) [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/) / 41 # Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 41 They stepped into the canoe; the little girl-daughter came with them; and the Man took his kris--a curving, wavy dagger with a blade like a flame,--and they pushed out on the Perak river. **Who acts:** Animals, little girl daughter, Man · **What happens:** step, come, take, curve, push out · **To what, where:** canoe, kris 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 (Animals, little girl daughter, Man), 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:pg2781:11:41 # text = They stepped into the canoe; the little girl-daughter came with them; and the Man took his kris--a curving, wavy dagger with a blade like a flame,--and they pushed out on the Perak river. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 stepped step VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 into into ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 canoe canoe NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ; ; PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 8 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 9 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 Man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 kris kris NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 -- -- PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 24 curving curve VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 26 wavy wavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 dagger dagger NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 appos _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 blade blade NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 like like ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 flame flame NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 -- -- PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 pushed push VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 39 out out ADP RP _ 38 compound:prt _ _ 40 on on ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 Perak Perak PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **step** | past | Animals *= animal* | | | the canoe | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into canoe=Destination | | 2 | **come** | past | the little girl daughter | | | | | with Animals *= animal* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **take** | past | the Man | Man's kris | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kris=Theme | | 4 | **curve** | gerund | | | | | | | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material | | 5 | **push out** | past | Animals *= animal* | | | | | on the Perak river | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on river=Theme | 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 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/11/40/) - next →: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/11/42/) - ↑ back to [The Crab That Played With the Sea](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/11/)