--- title: But towards evening, when people and things grow restless and tired,… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: But towards evening, when people and things grow restless and tired, there came up the Man (With his own little girl-daughter?)--Yes, with his own best beloved little girl-daughter sitting upon his shoulder, and he said, ‘What is this play, Eldest Magician?’ Who acts: people, Man, own beloved little --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/11/9/) [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/) / 9 # Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 9 But towards evening, when people and things grow restless and tired, there came up the Man (With his own little girl-daughter?)--Yes, with his own best beloved little girl-daughter sitting upon his shoulder, and he said, ‘What is this play, Eldest Magician?’ **Who acts:** people, Man, own beloved little girl daughter, Magician · **What happens:** grow, come up, sit, say, be · **To what, where:** shoulder, play · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (people, Man, own beloved little girl daughter, 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:pg2781:11:9 # text = But towards evening, when people and things grow restless and tired, there came up the Man (With his own little girl-daughter?)--Yes, with his own best beloved little girl-daughter sitting upon his shoulder, and he said, ‘What is this play, Eldest Magician?’ 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 2 towards towards ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 6 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 9 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 restless restless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 15 expl _ _ 15 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 16 up up ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 Man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 19 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 With with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 22 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 23 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 24 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ? ? PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 -- -- PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 9 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 33 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 34 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 35 best well ADV RBS Degree=Sup 36 advmod _ _ 36 beloved beloved ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 37 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 38 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 39 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 parataxis _ _ 41 sitting sit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 40 acl _ _ 42 upon upon ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 shoulder shoulder NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 47 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 48 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 50 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 54 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 54 nsubj _ _ 52 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 54 cop _ _ 53 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 54 det _ _ 54 play play NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 55 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 56 Eldest eld ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 57 amod _ _ 57 Magician Magician PROPN NNP Number=Sing 54 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 58 ? ? PUNCT . _ 57 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 59 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 54 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | present | people and things | | | | evening | restless *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **come up** | past | the Man | | | there | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **sit** | gerund | Man's own beloved little girl daughter *not said here* | | | Man's shoulder | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon shoulder=Location | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Magician | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | present | | this play | | | | | tree rules | 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 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/11/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/11/10/) - ↑ back to [The Crab That Played With the Sea](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/11/)