--- title: The Whale shouts a train-guard's call, "Change here for Winchester,… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Wh… · tree and pragmatics description: The Whale shouts a train-guard's call, "Change here for Winchester, Ashuelot, Nashua, Keene", as if his mouth were a railway station, and "and stations on the Fitchburg Road"; just as he says "Fitch", the Mariner walks out onto the "shingle" (a beach of small pebbles). 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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, Change, station, stations), 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:17 # text = The Whale shouts a train-guard's call, "Change here for Winchester, Ashuelot, Nashua, Keene", as if his mouth were a railway station, and "and stations on the Fitchburg Road"; just as he says "Fitch", the Mariner walks out onto the "shingle" (a beach of small pebbles). # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 shouts shout VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 train train NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 7 guard guard NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 call call NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 12 Change Change PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 13 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 12 advmod _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:case|HaikuPos=ADP:::_ 15 Winchester Winchester PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:nmod 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 Ashuelot Ashuelot PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 Nashua Nashua PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 Keene Keene PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 as as SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 25 if if SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 28 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 railway railway NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 station station NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 advcl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 53 cc _ _ 34 " " PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 stations station NOUN NNS Number=Plur 53 nsubj _ _ 37 on on ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 Fitchburg Fitchburg PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 Road Road PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=40:punct 42 ; ; PUNCT : _ 46 punct _ _ 43 just just ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 44 as as SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 45 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 46 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 53 advcl _ _ 47 " " PUNCT `` _ 48 punct _ _ 48 Fitch fitch PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=46:ccomp|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 49 " " PUNCT '' _ 48 punct _ _ 50 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 Mariner Mariner PROPN NNP Number=Sing 53 nsubj _ _ 53 walks walk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 54 out out ADV RB _ 53 advmod _ _ 55 onto onto ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 56 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 58 det _ _ 57 " " PUNCT `` _ 58 punct _ _ 58 shingle shingle NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 obl _ _ 59 " " PUNCT '' _ 58 punct _ _ 60 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 62 punct _ _ 61 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 62 det _ _ 62 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=58:parataxis 63 of of ADP IN _ 65 case _ _ 64 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 65 amod _ _ 65 pebbles pebble NOUN NNS Number=Plur 62 nmod _ _ 66 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 62 punct _ _ 67 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | the Whale | a train guard's call | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Topic | | 2 | **is a** | past | Change | a railway station | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | station | Fitch | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fitch=Topic | | 4 | **walk out** | present | stations on the Fitchburg Road | | | the shingle | | out *property* | vn resign-10.11 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **call** | | a train guard | | | | | | nom call «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:17`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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:…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/74-justso-whale-throat/16/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1:…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/74-justso-whale-throat/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/74-justso-whale-throat/)