Just so stories, How the Whale Got His Throat, sentence 3

All the fishes he could find in all the sea he ate with his mouth--so!

Who acts: fishes, Beloved · What happens: find, eat · To what, where: sea

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 (fishes, Beloved), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 fishes	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fishes	det
3	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 find	nsubj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 find	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 find	aux
6	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 sea	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 sea	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sea	det
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 find	obl
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 ate	nsubj
12	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sea	acl:relcl
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 mouth	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 mouth	nmod:poss
15	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ate	obl
16	--	--	PUNCT	_	17 so	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	6 find	conj
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 find	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	could	all fishes			all sea			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	eat	past	Beloved	all sea not said here				with Beloved's mouth	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Patient

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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