--- title: The Mariner sits on his raft trailing his toes in the water, because… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Wh… · tree and pragmatics description: The Mariner sits on his raft trailing his toes in the water, because "he had his Mummy's leave to paddle"; the Whale opens his mouth "back and back and back till it nearly touched his tail", swallows him, then turns round three times on his tail. Who acts: Mariner, Whale, mouth. 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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 (Mariner, Whale, mouth), 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:11 # text = The Mariner sits on his raft trailing his toes in the water, because "he had his Mummy's leave to paddle"; the Whale opens his mouth "back and back and back till it nearly touched his tail", swallows him, then turns round three times on his tail. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×5, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Mariner Mariner PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sits sit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 raft raft NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 trailing trail VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:acl 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 toes toe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 because because SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nmod:poss 19 Mummy Mummy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod:poss _ _ 20 's 's PART POS _ 19 case _ _ 21 leave leave NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 paddle paddle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 acl _ _ 24 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 Whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 opens open VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 29 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:compound 31 " " PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 32 back back ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 back back ADV RB _ 32 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=32:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 37 till till SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 39 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 touched touch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 41 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 42 punct _ _ 44 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 45 swallows swallow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 46 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 obj _ _ 47 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 48 then then ADV RB _ 49 advmod _ _ 49 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 conj _ _ 50 round round ADV RB _ 49 advmod _ _ 51 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 52 nummod _ _ 52 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 49 obl:unmarked _ _ 53 on on ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 54 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 55 nmod:poss _ _ 55 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=52:nmod 56 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | present | the Mariner | | | Mariner's raft | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on raft=Location | | 2 | **trail** | gerund | the Mariner *not said here* | Mariner's toes | | the water | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent toe=Theme in water=Trajectory | | 3 | **have** *in a quote* | past | Mariner | Mariner's Mummy's leave | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Patient | | 4 | **paddle** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Mariner *not said here* | Mariner's Mummy's leave *not said here* | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **open** | present | the Whale | Mariner's mouth | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme | | 6 | **touch** *in a quote* | past | mouth | Mariner's tail | | | | nearly *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tail=Co-Theme | | 7 | **swallow** | present | the Mariner *not said here* | Whale | | | | | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | | 8 | **turn round** | present | the Mariner *not said here* | | | Mariner's tail | then; time | round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on tail=Trajectory | 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:11`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×5, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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:…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/74-justso-whale-throat/10/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1:…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/74-justso-whale-throat/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/74-justso-whale-throat/)