Just so stories, How the Whale Got His Throat, sentence 41
He was wearing the blue canvas breeches when he walked out on the shingle.
Who acts: Sailor, blue canvas · What happens: wear, breech, walk out · To what, where: shingle
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 (Sailor, blue canvas), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wearing | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wearing | aux |
| 3 | wearing | wear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 canvas | det |
| 5 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 canvas | amod |
| 6 | canvas | canvas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 breeches | nsubj |
| 7 | breeches | breech | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wearing | parataxis |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 walked | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 walked | nsubj |
| 10 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 breeches | ccomp |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 walked | compound:prt |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 shingle | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 shingle | det |
| 14 | shingle | shingle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 walked | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wearing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past · progressive | Sailor | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | breech | present | the blue canvas | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | walk out | past | Sailor | the shingle | vn resign-10.11 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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