--- title: Pau Amma rolled his eyes and waved his legs, but he could only stir… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: Pau Amma rolled his eyes and waved his legs, but he could only stir up the Sea, because, though he was a King Crab, he was nothing more than a Crab, and the Eldest Magician laughed. Who acts: Pau, Eldest Magician. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pau, Eldest 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:pg2781:11:82 # text = Pau Amma rolled his eyes and waved his legs, but he could only stir up the Sea, because, though he was a King Crab, he was nothing more than a Crab, and the Eldest Magician laughed. 1 Pau Pau PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Amma Amma PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 rolled roll VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 waved wave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 only only ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 stir stir VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 16 up up ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 Sea Sea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 20 because because SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 22 though though SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod:desc _ _ 27 Crab Crab PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 31 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 27 appos _ _ 32 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 31 amod _ _ 33 than than ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 Crab Crab PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 Eldest eld ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 40 amod _ _ 40 Magician Magician PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 41 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **roll** | past | Pau | Pau's eyes | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Agent | | 2 | **wave** | past | Pau *not said here* | Pau's legs | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | | 3 | **stir up** | could | Pau | the Sea | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition sea=Patient | | 4 | **is a** | past | Pau | a Crab | | | | King *nmod:desc* | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | past | Pau | nothing | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **laugh** | past | the Eldest Magician | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/11/81/) - next →: [sentence 83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/11/83/) - ↑ back to [The Crab That Played With the Sea](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/11/)