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title: ‘Now I know who has been playing with the Sea;’ and he called out, ‘… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Now I know who has been playing with the Sea;’ and he called out, ‘What are you doing, Pau Amma?’ Who acts: I, Magician, 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 66

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‘Now I know who has been playing with the Sea;’ and he called out, ‘What are you doing, Pau Amma?’

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**Who acts:** I, Magician, you · **What happens:** know, play, call out, do · **To what, where:** Pau · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I, Magician, 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:pg2781:11:66
# text = ‘Now I know who has been playing with the Sea;’ and he called out, ‘What are you doing, Pau Amma?’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	aux	_	_
8	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	ccomp	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	23	obj	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	Pau	Pau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	Amma	Amma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | I |  |  |  | now |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **play** | present · perfect · progressive |  |  |  |  |  | with the Sea | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with sea=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **call out** *speech: assert* | past | Magician |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **do** | present · progressive | you | Pau |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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