--- title: When the Whale says he is still hungry, the little fish slyly asks w… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Wh… · tree and pragmatics description: When the Whale says he is still hungry, the little fish slyly asks whether he has ever tasted Man. Who acts: Whale, little fish. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Whale got his Throat» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/74-justso-whale-throat/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/74-justso-whale-throat/) / 1 # Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Whale got his Throat, sentence 1 When the Whale says he is still hungry, the little fish slyly asks whether he has ever tasted Man. **Who acts:** Whale, little fish · **What happens:** say, be, ask, taste · **To what, where:** Man · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Whale got his Throat» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Whale, little 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:1 # text = When the Whale says he is still hungry, the little fish slyly asks whether he has ever tasted Man. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 still still ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 ccomp _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 13 slyly slyly ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 19 advmod _ _ 19 tasted taste VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 14 ccomp _ _ 20 Man Man PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 21 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Whale | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | Whale | | | | still | hungry *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | the little fish | | | | | slyly *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **taste** | present · perfect | Whale | Man | | | ever | | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme man=Attribute | 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:1`. **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): 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: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1:…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/74-justso-whale-throat/0/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1:…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/74-justso-whale-throat/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/74-justso-whale-throat/)