Just so stories, How the Whale Got His Throat, sentence 1
IN the sea, once upon a time, O my Best Beloved, there was a Whale, and he ate fishes.
Who acts: Best Beloved, Beloved · What happens: be, eat · To what, where: Whale, sea, fishes
This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Whale Got His Throat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Best Beloved, Beloved), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | IN | in | ADP | _ | 3 sea | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sea | det |
| 3 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Whale | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 once | punct |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 sea | advmod |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 once | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sea | punct |
| 10 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 13 Beloved | vocative |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 Beloved | nmod:poss |
| 12 | Best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 Beloved | amod |
| 13 | Beloved | Beloved | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Whale | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 was | punct |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 was | expl |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 Whale | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 Whale | det |
| 18 | Whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ate | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 ate | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 ate | nsubj |
| 22 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 Whale | conj |
| 23 | fishes | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 ate | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 Whale | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | my Best Beloved | a Whale | the sea | tree rules | |||
| 2 | eat | past | Beloved | fishes | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient |
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.
Text: «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 2781 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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