Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Whale got his Throat, sentence 19
The 'Stute Fish hides in the mud under the "Door-sills of the Equator", afraid the Whale might be angry with him.
Who acts: Stute Fish, Whale · What happens: hide, be · To what, where: mud
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 (Stute Fish, Whale), 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 | 4 Fish | det |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 Fish | punct |
| 3 | Stute | Stute | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Fish | compound |
| 4 | Fish | Fish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 hides | nsubj |
| 5 | hides | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 mud | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mud | det |
| 8 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hides | obl |
| 9 | under | under | ADP | _ | 14 sills | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sills | det |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 sills | punct |
| 12 | Door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sills | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Door | punct |
| 14 | sills | sill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hides | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Equator | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Equator | det |
| 17 | Equator | equator | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 sills | nmod |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 sills | punct |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 afraid | punct |
| 20 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hides | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Whale | det |
| 22 | Whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 angry | nsubj |
| 23 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 angry | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 angry | cop |
| 25 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 afraid | ccomp |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 angry | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hides | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | present | the Stute Fish | the mud | under the Door sills of the Equator | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in mud=Location | |||
| 2 | is | might | the Whale | with Mariner; angry property | 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.
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:19.
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 ×1, 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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