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title: Then the Eldest Magician slid his arm up to the shoulder through the… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the Eldest Magician slid his arm up to the shoulder through the deep warm water, and under the roots of the Wonderful Tree he touched the broad back of Pau Amma the Crab. Who acts: Eldest Magician, Magician. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Crab That Played With the Sea, 
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# Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 63

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Then the Eldest Magician slid his arm up to the shoulder through the deep warm water, and under the roots of the Wonderful Tree he touched the broad back of Pau Amma the Crab.

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**Who acts:** Eldest Magician, Magician · **What happens:** slide up, touch · **To what, where:** arm, deep warm water, broad back, roots

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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 (Eldest Magician, Magician), 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:pg2781:11:63
# text = Then the Eldest Magician slid his arm up to the shoulder through the deep warm water, and under the roots of the Wonderful Tree he touched the broad back of Pau Amma the Crab.
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	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	slid	slide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	up	up	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	through	through	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
19	under	under	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	Wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	Tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	touched	touch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Pau	Pau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	Amma	Amma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	flat	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	Crab	Crab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slide up** | past | the Eldest Magician | Magician's arm |  | the deep warm water | then | to the shoulder | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent arm=Theme to shoulder=Initial\_Location through water=Trajectory |
| 2 | **touch** | past | Magician | the broad back of Pau |  | the roots |  | of the Wonderful Tree | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme back=Co-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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