Just so stories, How the Whale Got His Throat, sentence 16

Then the Whale opened his mouth back and back and back till it nearly touched his tail, and he swallowed the shipwrecked Mariner, and the raft he was sitting on, and his blue canvas breeches, and the suspenders (which you _must_ not forget), _and_ the jack-knife--He swallowed them all down into his warm, dark, inside cup-boards, and then he smacked his lips--so, and turned round three times on his tail.

Who acts: Whale, mouth, raft, suspenders · What happens: open, touch, swallow, shipwreck, sit on, not _ · To what, where: mouth, tail, shipwrecked Mariner, blue canvas breeches, raft, lips

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, mouth, raft, suspenders), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 opened	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Whale	det
3	Whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 opened	nsubj
4	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mouth	nmod:poss
6	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 opened	obj
7	back	back	ADV	_	9 back	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 back	cc
9	back	back	ADV	_	4 opened	advcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 back	cc
11	back	back	ADV	_	9 back	conj
12	till	till	SCONJ	_	15 touched	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 touched	nsubj
14	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	15 touched	advmod
15	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 opened	advcl
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 tail	nmod:poss
17	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 touched	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 swallowed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 swallowed	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 swallowed	nsubj
21	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 opened	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Mariner	det
23	shipwrecked	shipwreck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 Mariner	amod
24	Mariner	Mariner	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 swallowed	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sitting	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 sitting	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 raft	det
28	raft	raft	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sitting	nsubj
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 sitting	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 sitting	aux
31	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 opened	advcl
32	on	on	ADP	_	31 sitting	compound:prt
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 breeches	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 breeches	cc
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 breeches	nmod:poss
36	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 breeches	amod
37	canvas	canvas	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 breeches	compound
38	breeches	breech	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 sitting	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 suspenders	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 suspenders	cc
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 suspenders	det
42	suspenders	suspender	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 sitting	obl
43	(	(	PUNCT	_	44 which	punct
44	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 _	nsubj
45	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	44 which	nsubj
46	_	_	PUNCT	_	44 which	punct
47	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 _	aux
48	_	_	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 suspenders	acl:relcl
49	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	48 _	advmod
50	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 _	xcomp
51	)	)	PUNCT	_	31 sitting	punct
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 _	punct
53	_	_	PUNCT	_	4 opened	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 knife	cc
55	_	_	PUNCT	_	59 knife	punct
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 knife	det
57	jack	jack	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 knife	compound
58	-	-	PUNCT	_	57 jack	punct
59	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 opened	conj
60	--	--	PUNCT	_	62 swallowed	punct
61	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 swallowed	nsubj
62	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 knife	parataxis
63	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 swallowed	obj
64	all	all	ADV	_	65 down	advmod
65	down	down	ADV	_	62 swallowed	advmod
66	into	into	ADP	_	75 boards	case
67	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	75 boards	nmod:poss
68	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	75 boards	amod
69	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 warm	punct
70	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	75 boards	amod
71	,	,	PUNCT	_	70 dark	punct
72	inside	inside	ADJ	Degree=Pos	75 boards	amod
73	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	75 boards	compound
74	-	-	PUNCT	_	73 cup	punct
75	boards	board	NOUN	Number=Plur	65 down	obl
76	,	,	PUNCT	_	80 smacked	punct
77	and	and	CCONJ	_	80 smacked	cc
78	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	80 smacked	advmod
79	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	80 smacked	nsubj
80	smacked	smack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 swallowed	parataxis
81	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	82 lips	nmod:poss
82	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	80 smacked	obj
83	--	--	PUNCT	_	87 turned	punct
84	so	so	ADV	_	87 turned	advmod
85	,	,	PUNCT	_	87 turned	punct
86	and	and	CCONJ	_	87 turned	cc
87	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	80 smacked	conj
88	round	round	ADV	_	89 three	advmod
89	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	90 times	nummod
90	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	87 turned	obl:unmarked
91	on	on	ADP	_	93 tail	case
92	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	93 tail	nmod:poss
93	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	87 turned	obl
94	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	past	the Whale	Whale's mouth		then		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme
2	touch	past	mouth	Whale's tail			nearly property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tail=Co-Theme
3	swallow	past	Whale	the shipwrecked Mariner				vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mariner=Patient
4	shipwreck	participle						vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	sit on	past · progressive	the raft	Whale's blue canvas breeches			the suspenders obl	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	not _	must	the suspenders					tree rules
7	forget	infinitive	the suspenders not said here					tree rules
8	swallow	past	Whale	raft			down property	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
9	smack	past	Whale	Whale's lips		then		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lip=Patient
10	turn round	past	Whale not said here		Whale's tail	time		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on tail=Trajectory

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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