Just so stories, How the Whale Got His Throat, sentence 33
By means of a grating I have stopped your ating.
Who acts: I · What happens: mean, stop · To what, where: ating
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 (I), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 means | case |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 grating | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 grating | det |
| 5 | grating | grating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | obl |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 stopped | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 stopped | aux |
| 8 | stopped | stop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 grating | acl:relcl |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 ating | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ating | ating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stopped | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | of a grating | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | stop | present · perfect | I | your ating | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector ating=Eventuality |
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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