Just so stories, How the Whale Got His Throat, sentence 28
‘You had better take him home,’ said the ‘Stute Fish to the Whale.
Who acts: You · What happens: have, take, say · To what, where: Albion · 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 (You), 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 had | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 4 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 had | xcomp |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | xcomp |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 take | obj |
| 7 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 take | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Fish | det |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 Stute | punct |
| 13 | Stute | Stute | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Fish | compound |
| 14 | Fish | Fish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Whale | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Whale | det |
| 17 | Whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | You | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | infinitive | You not said here | Albion | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | to the Whale | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to whale=Experiencer 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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