Just so stories, How the Whale Got His Throat, sentence 4

Till at last there was only one small fish left in all the sea, and he was a small ‘Stute Fish, and he swam a little behind the Whale’s right ear, so as to be out of harm’s way.

Who acts: Beloved · What happens: be, leave, swim · To what, where: one small fish, sea, right ear, way

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 (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	Till	till	ADP	_	3 last	case
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 last	case
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 was	expl
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 last	cop
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 one	advmod
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 fish	nummod
8	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fish	amod
9	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 was	nsubj
10	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 fish	acl
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 sea	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 sea	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sea	det
14	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 left	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 small	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 small	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 small	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 small	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 small	det
20	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 last	conj
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 Fish	punct
22	Stute	Stute	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Fish	compound
23	Fish	Fish	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 small	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 swam	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 swam	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 swam	nsubj
27	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 last	parataxis
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 little	det
29	little	little	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 swam	advmod
30	behind	behind	ADP	_	35 ear	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Whale	det
32	Whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 ear	nmod:poss
33	’s	's	PART	_	32 Whale	case
34	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 ear	amod
35	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 swam	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 way	punct
37	so	so	ADV	_	45 way	advmod
38	as	as	SCONJ	_	45 way	mark
39	to	to	PART	_	45 way	mark
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	45 way	cop
41	out	out	ADP	_	45 way	case
42	of	of	ADP	_	45 way	case
43	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 way	nmod:poss
44	’s	's	PART	_	43 harm	case
45	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 swam	parataxis
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 last	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past				last property	tree rules
2	leave	participle		one small fish not said here		in all sea result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in sea=Result
3	is	past	Beloved			Stute Fish obl; small property	tree rules
4	swim	past	Beloved		the Whale's right ear	little property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind ear=Trajectory
5	is	to-infinitive			harm's way		tree rules

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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