--- title: A Whale has eaten every fish in the sea except one small, clever 'St… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Wh… · tree and pragmatics description: A Whale has eaten every fish in the sea except one small, clever 'Stute Fish, who hides behind the Whale's right ear. Who acts: Whale, small clever Fish. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Whale, small clever Fish), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:074-justso-whale-throat.lesson:0 # text = A Whale has eaten every fish in the sea except one small, clever 'Stute Fish, who hides behind the Whale's right ear. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 074-justso-whale-throat.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 6 det _ _ 6 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 except except ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nmod _ _ 12 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:amod 13 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 14 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:amod 15 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 16 Stute Stute PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 appos _ _ 17 Fish Fish PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 flat _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 20 hides hide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:acl:relcl 21 behind behind ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 Whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod:poss _ _ 24 's 's PART POS _ 23 case _ _ 25 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate, polarity=none, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | present · perfect | a Whale | every fish one | | the sea | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient | | 2 | **hide** | present | small clever Fish | | | the Whale's right ear | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind ear=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. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:074-justso-whale-throat.lesson:0`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII,…, 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/73-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad/35/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1:…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/74-justso-whale-throat/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/74-justso-whale-throat/)