Just so stories, How the Whale Got His Throat, sentence 5
Then the Whale stood up on his tail and said, ‘I’m hungry.’
Who acts: Whale, I · What happens: stand up, say, be · To what, where: tail · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Whale, I), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 stood | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Whale | det |
| 3 | Whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 stood | compound:prt |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 tail | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 tail | nmod:poss |
| 8 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ’m | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 ’m | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 ’m | nsubj |
| 14 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 15 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ’m | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand up | past | the Whale | Whale's tail | then | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tail=Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Whale not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | be | present | I | hungry property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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