Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Whale got his Throat, sentence 17
The Whale shouts a train-guard's call, "Change here for Winchester, Ashuelot, Nashua, Keene", as if his mouth were a railway station, and "and stations on the Fitchburg Road"; just as he says "Fitch", the Mariner walks out onto the "shingle" (a beach of small pebbles).
Who acts: Whale, Change, station, stations, train guard · What happens: shout, be, say, walk out, call · To what, where: call, railway station, Fitch, shingle · 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, Change, station, stations), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Whale | det |
| 2 | Whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shouts | nsubj |
| 3 | shouts | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 guard | det |
| 5 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 guard | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 train | punct |
| 7 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 call | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 guard | case |
| 9 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shouts | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Change | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Change | punct |
| 12 | Change | Change | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 station | nsubj |
| 13 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 Change | advmod |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 Winchester | case |
| 15 | Winchester | Winchester | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Change | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Ashuelot | punct |
| 17 | Ashuelot | Ashuelot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Winchester | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Nashua | punct |
| 19 | Nashua | Nashua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Winchester | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Keene | punct |
| 21 | Keene | Keene | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Winchester | conj |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Change | punct |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 mouth | punct |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 31 station | mark |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 31 station | mark |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 27 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 station | nsubj |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 station | cop |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 station | det |
| 30 | railway | railway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 station | compound |
| 31 | station | station | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shouts | advcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 walks | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 walks | cc |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 stations | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 stations | cc |
| 36 | stations | station | NOUN | Number=Plur | 53 walks | nsubj |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 40 Road | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Road | det |
| 39 | Fitchburg | Fitchburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Road | compound |
| 40 | Road | Road | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 stations | nmod |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 stations | punct |
| 42 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 46 says | punct |
| 43 | just | just | ADV | _ | 46 says | advmod |
| 44 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 46 says | mark |
| 45 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 says | nsubj |
| 46 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 53 walks | advcl |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 48 Fitch | punct |
| 48 | Fitch | fitch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 says | obj |
| 49 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 48 Fitch | punct |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 stations | punct |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 Mariner | det |
| 52 | Mariner | Mariner | PROPN | Number=Sing | 53 walks | nsubj |
| 53 | walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 shouts | conj |
| 54 | out | out | ADV | _ | 53 walks | advmod |
| 55 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 58 shingle | case |
| 56 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 58 shingle | det |
| 57 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 58 shingle | punct |
| 58 | shingle | shingle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 walks | obl |
| 59 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 58 shingle | punct |
| 60 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 62 beach | punct |
| 61 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 62 beach | det |
| 62 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 shingle | appos |
| 63 | of | of | ADP | _ | 65 pebbles | case |
| 64 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 65 pebbles | amod |
| 65 | pebbles | pebble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 62 beach | nmod |
| 66 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 62 beach | punct |
| 67 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shouts | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | present | the Whale | a train guard's call | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Change | a railway station | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | station | Fitch | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fitch=Topic | ||||
| 4 | walk out | present | stations on the Fitchburg Road | the shingle | out property | vn resign-10.11 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | call | a train guard | nom call «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.
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:17.
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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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