Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Whale got his Throat, sentence 0
A Whale has eaten every fish in the sea except one small, clever 'Stute Fish, who hides behind the Whale's right ear.
Who acts: Whale, small clever Fish · What happens: eat, hide · To what, where: fish, sea, right ear
This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Whale got his Throat» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Whale, small clever Fish), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Whale | det |
| 2 | Whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eaten | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 eaten | aux |
| 4 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 fish | det |
| 6 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eaten | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 sea | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sea | det |
| 9 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eaten | obl |
| 10 | except | except | ADP | _ | 14 clever | case |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 fish | nmod |
| 12 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Fish | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 small | punct |
| 14 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Fish | amod |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 clever | punct |
| 16 | Stute | Stute | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 one | appos |
| 17 | Fish | Fish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Stute | flat |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hides | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 hides | nsubj |
| 20 | hides | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 Fish | acl:relcl |
| 21 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 26 ear | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Whale | det |
| 23 | Whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ear | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 Whale | case |
| 25 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 ear | amod |
| 26 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hides | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 eaten | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate, polarity=none, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present · perfect | a Whale | every fish one | the sea | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient | |||
| 2 | hide | present | small clever Fish | the Whale's right ear | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind ear=Location |
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.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:books:074-justso-whale-throat.lesson:0.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
See the release 0.4.
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