Just so stories, How the Whale Got His Throat, sentence 37

But from that day on, the grating in his throat, which he could neither cough up nor swallow down, prevented him eating anything except very, very small fish; and that is the reason why whales nowadays never eat men or boys or little girls.

Who acts: Mariner, that, whales · What happens: cough up, swallow down, prevent, eat, be, not eat · To what, where: grating, Mariner, anything, reason, men

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, that, whales), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	23 prevented	cc
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 day	case
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 day	det
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 prevented	obl
5	on	on	ADV	_	4 day	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 grating	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 grating	det
8	grating	grating	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 day	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 throat	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 throat	nmod:poss
11	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grating	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 cough	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 cough	obj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 cough	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 cough	aux
16	neither	neither	ADV	_	17 cough	advmod
17	cough	cough	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 grating	parataxis
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 cough	compound:prt
19	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	20 swallow	cc
20	swallow	swallow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 cough	conj
21	down	down	ADP	_	20 swallow	compound:prt
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 day	punct
23	prevented	prevent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 prevented	obj
25	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 prevented	advcl
26	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	25 eating	obj
27	except	except	ADP	_	28 very	case
28	very	very	ADV	_	25 eating	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 fish	punct
30	very	very	ADV	_	31 small	advmod
31	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 fish	amod
32	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 eating	obl
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 reason	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 reason	cc
35	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 reason	nsubj
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 reason	cop
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 reason	det
38	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 prevented	parataxis
39	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	43 eat	advmod
40	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 eat	nsubj
41	nowadays	nowadays	ADV	_	43 eat	advmod
42	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	43 eat	advmod
43	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 reason	parataxis
44	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 eat	obj
45	or	or	CCONJ	_	46 boys	cc
46	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 men	conj
47	or	or	CCONJ	_	49 girls	cc
48	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 girls	amod
49	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 men	conj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 prevented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cough up	could	Mariner	the grating in Mariner's throat		neither property	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme
2	swallow down	infinitive	Mariner not said here				vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	prevent	past		Mariner	day		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer he=Theme
4	eat	gerund		anything		small fish obl	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient
5	is a	present	that	the reason			tree rules
6	not eat	infinitive	whales	men or boys or little girls		nowadays property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=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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