Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Whale got his Throat, sentence 1

When the Whale says he is still hungry, the little fish slyly asks whether he has ever tasted Man.

Who acts: Whale, little fish · What happens: say, be, ask, taste · To what, where: Man · Speech: someone speaks here

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, little 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 says	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Whale	det
3	Whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 asks	advcl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hungry	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 hungry	cop
7	still	still	ADV	_	8 hungry	advmod
8	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 says	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 asks	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fish	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fish	amod
12	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 asks	nsubj
13	slyly	slyly	ADV	_	14 asks	advmod
14	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	19 tasted	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 tasted	nsubj
17	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 tasted	aux
18	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	19 tasted	advmod
19	tasted	taste	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 asks	ccomp
20	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 tasted	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 asks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the Whale				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	Whale		still	hungry property	tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	present	the little fish			slyly property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	taste	present · perfect	Whale	Man	ever		vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme man=Attribute

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:1.

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): 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.

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