--- title: He took the Cow--All-the Cow-there-was--and said, ‘Play at being a C… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: He took the Cow--All-the Cow-there-was--and said, ‘Play at being a Cow,’ and All-the-Cow-there-was played. Who acts: 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 clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/11/6/) [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/) / 6 # Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 6 He took the Cow--All-the Cow-there-was--and said, ‘Play at being a Cow,’ and All-the-Cow-there-was played. **Who acts:** Magician · **What happens:** take, be, play · **To what, where:** Cow, All · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (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:pg2781:11:6 # text = He took the Cow--All-the Cow-there-was--and said, ‘Play at being a Cow,’ and All-the-Cow-there-was played. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 -- -- PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 All all DET DT PronType=Tot 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 Cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 14 -- -- PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 Play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 ccomp _ _ 20 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 cop _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 Cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 27 All all DET DT PronType=Tot 36 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ SpaceAfter=No 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 Cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 31 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux:pass _ _ 36 played play VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | Magician | | the Cow | | | All *obl* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument cow=Destination | | 2 | **be** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | say *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **play** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | at a Cow | tree rules | | 5 | **play** | past · passive | | All | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/11/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/11/7/) - ↑ back to [The Crab That Played With the Sea](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/11/)