--- title: The Whale ate "the starfish and the garfish, and the crab and the da… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Wh… · tree and pragmatics description: The Whale ate "the starfish and the garfish, and the crab and the dab", until only one small 'Stute Fish was left; "'Stute" is short for "astute", which means clever. Who acts: Whale, Stute. 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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, Stute), 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:7 # text = The Whale ate "the starfish and the garfish, and the crab and the dab", until only one small 'Stute Fish was left; "'Stute" is short for "astute", which means clever. # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 starfish starfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 garfish garfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 crab crab NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 dab dab NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 until until SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 20 only only ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:advmod 21 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nsubj _ _ 22 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:parataxis 23 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 24 Stute Stute PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 25 Fish Fish PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 flat _ _ 26 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 28 ; ; PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 29 " " PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 30 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 31 Stute Stute PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 32 " " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 34 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 35 for for ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 " " PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ _ 37 astute astute ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 obl _ _ 38 " " PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=34:punct 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 41 nsubj _ _ 41 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 acl:relcl _ _ 42 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 xcomp _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | past | the Whale | the starfish and the garfish and the crab and the dab | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent starfish=Patient | | 2 | **leave** | past · passive | | Stute | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | Stute | | | | | for astute; short *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **mean** | present | | | | | | clever *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=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:7`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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:…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/74-justso-whale-throat/6/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1:…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/74-justso-whale-throat/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/74-justso-whale-throat/)