--- title: Then the Eldest Magician stood up and shouted, ‘Ho! beasts, birds, a… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: Then the Eldest Magician stood up and shouted, ‘Ho! beasts, birds, and fishes, that I took between my hands at the Very Beginning and taught the play that you should play, which one of you is playing with the Sea?’ Who acts: Eldest Magician, fishes, you, one. 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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, fishes, you, one), 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:pg2781:11:43 # text = Then the Eldest Magician stood up and shouted, ‘Ho! beasts, birds, and fishes, that I took between my hands at the Very Beginning and taught the play that you should play, which one of you is playing with the Sea?’ 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 NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 up up ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 shouted shout VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 Ho Ho PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ! ! PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ 13 beasts beast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 fishes fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 23 between between ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 26 at at ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 Very very ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 Beginning beginning NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 taught teach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 play play NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 37 obl _ _ 35 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 36 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 39 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 40 det _ _ 40 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 40 nmod _ _ 43 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 playing play VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 acl _ _ 45 with with ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 Sea Sea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ? ? PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand up** | past | the Eldest Magician | Ho beasts and birds | | | then | fishes *obl* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | participle | the Eldest Magician *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **take** | past | fishes | | | | at the Beginning | between my hands | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent at beginning=Asset | | 4 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | fishes *not said here* | the play | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent play=Recipient | | 5 | **play** | should | you | the play | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **play** | present · progressive | which one of you | | | | | with the Sea | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with sea=Co-Agent | 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 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/11/42/) - next →: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/11/44/) - ↑ back to [The Crab That Played With the Sea](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/11/)