Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Whale got his Throat, sentence 6

The Just So Stories (1902) are Rudyard Kipling's made-up stories of how animals got their shapes; he first told them to his own children, who wanted them told "just so", word for word.

Who acts: Just Stories, animals, Whale, own children · What happens: make up, be, get, tell, want · To what, where: made stories, shapes, word · 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 (Just Stories, animals, Whale, own children), 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 Stories	det
2	Just	Just	PROPN	_	4 Stories	compound
3	So	so	PROPN	_	2 Just	flat
4	Stories	story	PROPN	Number=Plur	15 stories	nsubj
5	(	(	PUNCT	_	6 1902	punct
6	1902	1902	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 Stories	appos
7	)	)	PUNCT	_	6 1902	punct
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 stories	cop
9	Rudyard	Rudyard	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Kipling	compound
10	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 stories	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Kipling	case
12	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 stories	amod
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 up	punct
14	up	up	ADP	_	12 made	compound:prt
15	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
16	of	of	SCONJ	_	19 got	mark
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 got	advmod
18	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 got	nsubj
19	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 stories	acl
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 shapes	nmod:poss
21	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 got	obj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 told	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 told	nsubj
24	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	25 told	advmod
25	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 stories	parataxis
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 told	iobj
27	to	to	ADP	_	30 children	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 children	nmod:poss
29	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 children	amod
30	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 told	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 wanted	punct
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 wanted	nsubj
33	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 children	acl:relcl
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 told	nsubj
35	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 wanted	xcomp
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 so	punct
37	just	just	ADV	_	38 so	advmod
38	so	so	ADV	_	35 told	advmod
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 so	punct
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 word	punct
41	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 told	obl
42	for	for	ADP	_	43 word	case
43	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 word	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 stories	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	make up	participle					vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	the Just Stories	Rudyard Kipling's made stories			tree rules
3	get	past	animals	Stories's shapes			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shape=Stimulus
4	tell speech: assert	past	Whale		shapes = shape	to Whale's own children; first property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Topic to child=Recipient
5	want	past	Whale's own children				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	tell speech: assert not said to happen	participle	animals = animal	word for word			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:6.

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): R4-particle ×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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