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title: And Pau Amma settled down at the touch, and all the Sea rose up as w… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: And Pau Amma settled down at the touch, and all the Sea rose up as water rises in a basin when you put your hand into it. Who acts: Pau, Sea, water, you. 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
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# Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 64

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And Pau Amma settled down at the touch, and all the Sea rose up as water rises in a basin when you put your hand into it.

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**Who acts:** Pau, Sea, water, you · **What happens:** settle down, rise up, rise, put · **To what, where:** touch, basin, hand, Sea

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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 (Pau, Sea, water, you), 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:pg2781:11:64
# text = And Pau Amma settled down at the touch, and all the Sea rose up as water rises in a basin when you put your hand into it.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	Pau	Pau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Amma	Amma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	settled	settle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	touch	touch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	rises	rise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	basin	basin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	put	put	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
25	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **settle down** | past | Pau |  |  | the touch |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **rise up** | past | the Sea |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **rise** | present | water |  |  | a basin |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in basin=Location |
| 4 | **put** | present | you | your hand |  | Sea |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal |

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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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