Just so stories, How the Whale Got His Throat, sentence 21
‘Tell him to come out,’ said the ‘Stute Fish.
What happens: tell, come out, say · To what, where: 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: 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 | _ | 2 Tell | punct |
| 2 | Tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Tell | iobj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 come | mark |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Tell | xcomp |
| 6 | out | out | ADV | _ | 5 come | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tell | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tell | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Fish | det |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Stute | punct |
| 12 | Stute | Stute | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Fish | compound |
| 13 | Fish | Fish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | Whale | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | come out not said to happen | to-infinitive | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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