Just so stories, How the Whale Got His Throat, sentence 38
The small ‘Stute Fish went and hid himself in the mud under the Door-sills of the Equator.
Who acts: small · What happens: go, hide · To what, where: Whale, mud
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 (small), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 small | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 went | nsubj |
| 3 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
| 4 | Stute | Stute | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Fish | compound |
| 5 | Fish | Fish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 hid | cc |
| 8 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 hid | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 mud | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mud | det |
| 12 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hid | obl |
| 13 | under | under | ADP | _ | 17 sills | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sills | det |
| 15 | Door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sills | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Door | punct |
| 17 | sills | sill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hid | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Equator | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Equator | det |
| 20 | Equator | Equator | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 sills | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the small | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hide | past | the small not said here | Whale | the mud | under the Door sills of the Equator | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in mud=Location |
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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