--- title: ‘Now, let me try,’ and he made a Magic with his left hand--with just… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Now, let me try,’ and he made a Magic with his left hand--with just the little finger of his left hand--and--lo and behold, Best Beloved, Pau Amma’s hard, blue-green-black shell fell off him as a husk falls off a cocoa-nut, and Pau Amma was left all soft--soft as the little crabs that you sometimes --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/11/84/) [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/) / 84 # Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 84 ‘Now, let me try,’ and he made a Magic with his left hand--with just the little finger of his left hand--and--lo and behold, Best Beloved, Pau Amma’s hard, blue-green-black shell fell off him as a husk falls off a cocoa-nut, and Pau Amma was left all soft--soft as the little crabs that you sometimes find on the beach, Best Beloved. **Who acts:** you, me, Pau, hard black shell, husk · **What happens:** let, try, make, fall off, leave, find · **To what, where:** me, Magic, Pau, cocoa nut, little crabs, beach 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 (you, me, Pau, hard black shell), 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:pg2781:11:84 # text = ‘Now, let me try,’ and he made a Magic with his left hand--with just the little finger of his left hand--and--lo and behold, Best Beloved, Pau Amma’s hard, blue-green-black shell fell off him as a husk falls off a cocoa-nut, and Pau Amma was left all soft--soft as the little crabs that you sometimes find on the beach, Best Beloved. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 try try VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Magic Magic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 left left ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 -- -- PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 20 just just ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 26 left left ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 -- -- PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 30 -- -- PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 lo lo INTJ UH _ 4 xcomp _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 behold behold INTJ UH _ 31 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 Best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 36 amod _ _ 36 Beloved Beloved PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 38 Pau Pau PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 nmod:poss _ _ 39 Amma Amma PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ’s 's PART POS _ 38 case _ _ 41 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 43 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nsubj _ _ 49 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 acl:relcl _ _ 50 off off ADP RP _ 51 case _ _ 51 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 obl _ _ 52 as as SCONJ IN _ 55 mark _ _ 53 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 54 husk husk NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 nsubj _ _ 55 falls fall VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 49 advcl _ _ 56 off off ADP RP _ 55 compound:prt _ _ 57 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 60 det _ _ 58 cocoa cocoa NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 59 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 58 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 60 nut nut NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 61 , , PUNCT , _ 66 punct _ _ 62 and and CCONJ CC _ 66 cc _ _ 63 Pau Pau PROPN NNP Number=Sing 66 nsubj _ _ 64 Amma Amma PROPN NNP Number=Sing 63 flat _ _ 65 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 66 aux:pass _ _ 66 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 55 conj _ _ 67 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 66 obj _ _ 68 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 67 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 69 -- -- PUNCT , _ 70 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 70 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 68 conj _ _ 71 as as ADP IN _ 74 case _ _ 72 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 74 det _ _ 73 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 74 amod _ _ 74 crabs crab NOUN NNS Number=Plur 70 obl _ _ 75 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 78 obj _ _ 76 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 78 nsubj _ _ 77 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 78 advmod _ _ 78 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 74 acl:relcl _ _ 79 on on ADP IN _ 81 case _ _ 80 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 81 det _ _ 81 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 78 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 82 , , PUNCT , _ 84 punct _ _ 83 Best Good ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 84 flat _ _ 84 Beloved Beloved PROPN NNP Number=Sing 81 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 85 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | me | | | now | | tree rules | | 2 | **try** | infinitive | me *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **make** | past | Pau | a Magic | | | | with Pau's left hand; with the little finger of Pau's left hand | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magic=Product | | 4 | **fall off** | past | Pau's hard black shell | Pau | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient he=Extent | | 5 | **fall off** | present | a husk | a cocoa nut | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient nut=Extent | | 6 | **leave** | past · passive | | Pau | | | | | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme all=Attribute | | 7 | **find** | present | you | the little crabs | | the beach | | sometimes *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic | 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 83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/11/83/) - next →: [sentence 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/11/85/) - ↑ back to [The Crab That Played With the Sea](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/11/)