--- title: And the Eldest Magician said, ‘No, Pau Amma, I will not give you bac… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: And the Eldest Magician said, ‘No, Pau Amma, I will not give you back your shell, for you will grow bigger and prouder and stronger, and perhaps you will forget your promise, and you will play with the Sea once more. Who acts: Eldest Magician, I, you, your. 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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 (Eldest Magician, I, you, your), 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:pg2781:11:90 # text = And the Eldest Magician said, ‘No, Pau Amma, I will not give you back your shell, for you will grow bigger and prouder and stronger, and perhaps you will forget your promise, and you will play with the Sea once more. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 Eldest eld ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 4 amod _ _ 4 Magician Magician PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 7 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 No no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 16 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 10 Pau Pau PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 vocative _ _ 11 Amma Amma PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 14 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 ccomp _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 iobj _ _ 18 back back ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 19 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 for for SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ _ 26 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 25 xcomp _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 prouder proud ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 26 conj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 stronger strong ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 33 perhaps perhaps ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 34 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 forget forget VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 ccomp _ _ 37 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 promise promise NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 41 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 42 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 43 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 parataxis _ _ 44 with with ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 Sea Sea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 obl _ _ 47 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 48 advmod _ _ 48 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 43 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Eldest Magician | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **give back** | future | I | your shell | you | | | Pau *vocative* | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient shell=Theme | | 3 | **grow** | future | you | | | | | big *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **forget** | future | you | your promise | | | | perhaps *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **play** | future | you | | | | | with the Sea | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with sea=Co-Agent | | 6 | **promise** | | your | | | | | | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=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 89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/11/89/) - next →: [sentence 91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/11/91/) - ↑ back to [The Crab That Played With the Sea](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/11/)