Just so stories, How the Whale Got His Throat, sentence 22

So the Whale called down his own throat to the shipwrecked Mariner, ‘Come out and behave yourself.

Who acts: Whale · What happens: call down, shipwreck, come out, behave · To what, where: own throat, shipwrecked Mariner, yourself

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), 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	_	4 called	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Whale	det
3	Whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 called	nsubj
4	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 called	compound:prt
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 throat	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 throat	amod
8	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 called	xcomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 Mariner	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Mariner	det
11	shipwrecked	shipwreck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 Mariner	amod
12	Mariner	Mariner	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 called	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Come	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 Come	punct
15	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 called	conj
16	out	out	ADV	_	15 Come	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 behave	cc
18	behave	behave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 Come	conj
19	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 behave	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	call down speech: assert	participle	the Whale	Whale's own throat	the shipwrecked Mariner		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to mariner=Recipient
2	shipwreck	participle					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	come out	infinitive	the Whale not said here			out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
4	behave	infinitive	the Whale not said here	yourself			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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