Just so stories, How the Whale Got His Throat, sentence 19

So he said to the ‘Stute Fish, ‘This man is very nubbly, and besides he is making me hiccough.

Who acts: Whale, man, me · What happens: say, be, make, hiccough · To what, where: Stute Fish, me · 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, man, me), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 said	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	8 Fish	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Fish	det
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 Stute	punct
7	Stute	Stute	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Fish	compound
8	Fish	Fish	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 nubbly	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 nubbly	punct
11	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 man	det
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 nubbly	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 nubbly	cop
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 nubbly	advmod
15	nubbly	nubbly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 making	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 making	cc
18	besides	besides	ADP	_	21 making	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 making	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 making	aux
21	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 nubbly	advcl
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 making	obj
23	hiccough	hiccough	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 making	xcomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Whale		the Stute Fish		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to fish=Recipient
2	is	present	this man			nubbly property	tree rules
3	make	present · progressive	Whale	me			tree rules
4	hiccough	infinitive	me not said here				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.

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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