--- title: As he rose up through the branches of the Wonderful Tree he tore off… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: As he rose up through the branches of the Wonderful Tree he tore off one of the great twin fruits--the magic double kernelled nuts that make people young,--and the little girl-daughter saw it bobbing alongside the canoe, and pulled it in and began to pick out the soft eyes of it with her little gold --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/11/80/) [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/) / 80 # Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 80 As he rose up through the branches of the Wonderful Tree he tore off one of the great twin fruits--the magic double kernelled nuts that make people young,--and the little girl-daughter saw it bobbing alongside the canoe, and pulled it in and began to pick out the soft eyes of it with her little golden scissors. **Who acts:** other, double kernelled nuts, little girl daughter, smoke · **What happens:** rise up, tore off, kernell, make, see, bob · **To what, where:** magic, branches, one, people, smoke, canoe 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 (other, double kernelled nuts, little girl daughter, smoke), 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:pg2781:11:80 # text = As he rose up through the branches of the Wonderful Tree he tore off one of the great twin fruits--the magic double kernelled nuts that make people young,--and the little girl-daughter saw it bobbing alongside the canoe, and pulled it in and began to pick out the soft eyes of it with her little golden scissors. 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 through through ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 branches branch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 Wonderful wonderful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 Tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 tore tore VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 14 off off ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 obj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 18 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 19 twin twin NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 fruits fruit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 -- -- PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 magic magic NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 24 double double ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 25 kernelled kernell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 amod _ _ 26 nuts nut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 27 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 29 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 30 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 -- -- PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 35 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 36 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ _ 41 bobbing bob VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 39 xcomp _ _ 42 alongside alongside ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 canoe canoe NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 47 pulled pull VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 parataxis _ _ 48 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 obj _ _ 49 in in ADP RP _ 47 compound:prt _ _ 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 51 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 47 conj _ _ 52 to to PART TO _ 53 mark _ _ 53 pick pick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 51 xcomp _ _ 54 out out ADP RP _ 53 compound:prt _ _ 55 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 57 det _ _ 56 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 57 amod _ _ 57 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 53 obj _ _ 58 of of ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 59 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 57 nmod _ _ 60 with with ADP IN _ 64 case _ _ 61 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 64 nmod:poss _ _ 62 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 64 amod _ _ 63 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 64 amod _ _ 64 scissors scissors NOUN NNS Number=Plur 53 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 65 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rise up** | past | other | the magic and double kernelled nuts | | the branches of the Wonderful Tree | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location magic=Theme | | 2 | **tore off** | past | other | one of the great twin fruits | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **kernell** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **make** | present | double kernelled nuts | people | | | | young *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product | | 5 | **see** | past | the little girl daughter | smoke | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **bob** | gerund | smoke *not said here* | | | the canoe | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme alongside canoe=Location | | 7 | **pull in** | past | | smoke | | | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 8 | **begin** | past | | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 9 | **pick out** | to-infinitive | | the soft eyes of smoke | | | | with daughter's little golden scissors | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | 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 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/11/79/) - next →: [sentence 81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/11/81/) - ↑ back to [The Crab That Played With the Sea](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/11/)