--- title: Then the Moon rose big and full over the water, and the Eldest Magic… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: Then the Moon rose big and full over the water, and the Eldest Magician said to the hunchbacked old man who sits in the Moon spinning a fishing-line with which he hopes one day to catch the world, ‘Ho! Who acts: Moon, Eldest Magician, hunchbacked old man, Magician. 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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 (Moon, Eldest Magician, hunchbacked old man, Magician), 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:pg2781:11:46 # text = Then the Moon rose big and full over the water, and the Eldest Magician said to the hunchbacked old man who sits in the Moon spinning a fishing-line with which he hopes one day to catch the world, ‘Ho! 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 8 over over ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 Eldest eld ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 15 amod _ _ 15 Magician Magician PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 19 hunchbacked hunchbacked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 20 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 22 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 23 sits sit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 spinning spin VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 29 fishing fishing NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 obl _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 hopes hope VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 36 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 nummod _ _ 37 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl:unmarked _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 xcomp _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 43 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 Ho Ho PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rise** | past | the Moon | | | the water | then | big *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over water=Location | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Eldest Magician | Ho | the hunchbacked old man | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to man=Recipient | | 3 | **sit** | present | the hunchbacked old man | | | the Moon | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in moon=Location | | 4 | **spin** | gerund | the hunchbacked old man *not said here* | a fishing line | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent line=Theme | | 5 | **hope** | present | Magician | | | | day | with a fishing line | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **catch** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Magician *not said here* | the world | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=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 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/11/45/) - next →: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/11/47/) - ↑ back to [The Crab That Played With the Sea](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/11/)