Just so stories, How the Whale Got His Throat, sentence 11

‘Then fetch me some,’ said the Whale, and he made the sea froth up with his tail.

Who acts: Whale, sea · What happens: fetch, say, make, froth up · To what, where: some, me, Whale · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Whale, sea), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 fetch	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 fetch	advmod
3	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 fetch	obj
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 fetch	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fetch	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 fetch	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Whale	det
10	Whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 made	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 made	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 made	nsubj
14	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sea	det
16	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 froth	nsubj
17	froth	froth	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 made	parataxis
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 froth	compound:prt
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 tail	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 tail	nmod:poss
21	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 froth	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	fetch	infinitive		some	me	then		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary some=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past		the Whale				tree rules
3	make	past	Whale					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	froth up	present	the sea				with sea's tail	vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with tail=Theme

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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