--- title: On the way the Mariner cuts the raft into "a little square grating a… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Wh… · tree and pragmatics description: On the way the Mariner cuts the raft into "a little square grating all running criss-cross", ties it with the suspenders and drags it into the Whale's throat, where it sticks. Who acts: Mariner, little square, square. 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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, little square, square), 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:15 # text = On the way the Mariner cuts the raft into "a little square grating all running criss-cross", ties it with the suspenders and drags it into the Whale's throat, where it sticks. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 On on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Mariner Mariner PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 cuts cut VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 raft raft NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 into into ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 square square NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 grating grate VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 obl _ _ 15 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 19 det _ _ 16 running run VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 amod _ _ 17 criss criss NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ _ 19 cross cross NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 ties tie VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 suspenders suspender NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 drags drag VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 into into ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 Whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod:poss _ _ 33 's 's PART POS _ 32 case _ _ 34 throat throat NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 38 advmod _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 sticks stick VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 acl:relcl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **cut** | present | the Mariner | the raft | | the way | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent raft=Product | | 2 | **grate** *in a quote* | gerund | a little square | all running criss cross | | | | | vn appeal-31.4-1 «NP V NP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus cross=Experiencer | | 3 | **run** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **tie** | present | the Mariner *not said here* | cross | | | | with the suspenders | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient with suspender=Co-Patient | | 5 | **drag** | present | the Mariner *not said here* | cross | | the Whale's throat | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 6 | **stick** | present | square | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | 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:15`. **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): R6-punct-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:…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/74-justso-whale-throat/14/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1:…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/74-justso-whale-throat/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/74-justso-whale-throat/)