Just so stories, How the Whale Got His Throat, sentence 42
The suspenders were left behind, you see, to tie the grating with; and that is the end of _that_ tale.
Who acts: you, that, _ · What happens: leave behind, see, tie, be, _ · To what, where: suspenders, grating, end, tale
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 (you, that, _), 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 suspenders | det |
| 2 | suspenders | suspender | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 left | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | aux:pass |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 4 left | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 see | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 see | nsubj |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 tie | punct |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 tie | mark |
| 11 | tie | tie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 see | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 grating | det |
| 13 | grating | grating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tie | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 tie | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 end | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 end | cc |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 end | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 end | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 end | det |
| 20 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 _ | case |
| 22 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 end | nmod |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 _ | nsubj |
| 24 | _ | _ | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 _ | acl:relcl |
| 25 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 _ | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave behind | past · passive | the suspenders | behind property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | tie | to-infinitive | you not said here | the grating | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grating=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | that | the end | of _ | tree rules | |||
| 5 | _ | present | _ | tale | 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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