Just so stories, How the Whale Got His Throat, sentence 35

And he stepped out on the shingle, and went home to his mother, who had given him leave to trail his toes in the water; and he married and lived happily ever afterward.

Who acts: Mariner, mother · What happens: step out, go, give, leave, trail, marry · To what, where: shingle, Mariner, toes, water

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 (Mariner, mother), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 stepped	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stepped	nsubj
3	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 stepped	compound:prt
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 shingle	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shingle	det
7	shingle	shingle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stepped	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 went	cc
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stepped	conj
11	home	home	ADV	_	10 went	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 mother	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mother	nmod:poss
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 given	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 given	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 given	aux
18	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 mother	acl:relcl
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 given	iobj
20	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 given	xcomp
21	to	to	PART	_	22 trail	mark
22	trail	trail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 leave	xcomp
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 toes	nmod:poss
24	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 trail	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 water	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 water	det
27	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 trail	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 married	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 married	cc
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 married	nsubj
31	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stepped	parataxis
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 lived	cc
33	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 married	conj
34	happily	happily	ADV	_	33 lived	advmod
35	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	36 afterward	advmod
36	afterward	afterward	ADV	_	33 lived	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stepped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	step out	past	Mariner			the shingle		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shingle=Trajectory
2	go	past	Mariner not said here				to Mariner's mother; home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mother=Initial_Location
3	give	past · perfect	Mariner's mother		Mariner			tree rules
4	leave	infinitive	Mariner's mother not said here					tree rules
5	trail	to-infinitive	Mariner's mother not said here	Mariner's toes		the water		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent toe=Theme in water=Trajectory
6	marry	past	Mariner					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
7	live	past	Mariner not said here				afterward, happily property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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