--- title: So the Whale swam and swam and swam, with both flippers and his tail… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: So the Whale swam and swam and swam, with both flippers and his tail, as hard as he could for the hiccoughs; and at last he saw the Mariner’s natal-shore and the white-cliffs-of-Albion, and he rushed half-way up the beach, and opened his mouth wide and wide and wide, and said, ‘Change here for Winch --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/2/30/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Just so stories](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/) / [How the Whale Got His Throat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/2/) / 30 # Just so stories, How the Whale Got His Throat, sentence 30 So the Whale swam and swam and swam, with both flippers and his tail, as hard as he could for the hiccoughs; and at last he saw the Mariner’s natal-shore and the white-cliffs-of-Albion, and he rushed half-way up the beach, and opened his mouth wide and wide and wide, and said, ‘Change here for Winchester, Ashuelot, Nashua, Keene, and stations on the \_Fitch\_burg Road;’ and just as he said ‘Fitch’ the Mariner walked out of his mouth. **Who acts:** Whale, Albion, Mariner · **What happens:** swim, see, rush, open, say, change · **To what, where:** stations, natal shore, last, half way, beach, mouth · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Whale Got His Throat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Whale, Albion, Mariner), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2781:2:30 # text = So the Whale swam and swam and swam, with both flippers and his tail, as hard as he could for the hiccoughs; and at last he saw the Mariner’s natal-shore and the white-cliffs-of-Albion, and he rushed half-way up the beach, and opened his mouth wide and wide and wide, and said, ‘Change here for Winchester, Ashuelot, Nashua, Keene, and stations on the _Fitch_burg Road;’ and just as he said ‘Fitch’ the Mariner walked out of his mouth. 1 So so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 swam swim VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 swam swim VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 swam swim VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 12 det _ _ 12 flippers flipper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 as as ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 8 advmod _ _ 19 as as SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 22 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 hiccoughs hiccough NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 at at ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 last last NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 Mariner Mariner PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ’s 's PART POS _ 32 case _ _ 34 natal natal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 shore shore NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 39 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 cliffs cliff NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ SpaceAfter=No 44 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 Albion Albion PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 48 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 nsubj _ _ 49 rushed rush VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 50 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 52 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 51 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 50 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 52 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obj _ _ 53 up up ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 54 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 55 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 56 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 57 and and CCONJ CC _ 58 cc _ _ 58 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 59 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 60 nmod:poss _ _ 60 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 obj _ _ 61 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 58 xcomp _ _ 62 and and CCONJ CC _ 63 cc _ _ 63 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 61 conj _ _ 64 and and CCONJ CC _ 65 cc _ _ 65 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 61 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 66 , , PUNCT , _ 68 punct _ _ 67 and and CCONJ CC _ 68 cc _ _ 68 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 69 , , PUNCT , _ 71 punct _ _ 70 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 71 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 71 Change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 68 ccomp _ _ 72 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 71 advmod _ _ 73 for for ADP IN _ 74 case _ _ 74 Winchester Winchester PROPN NNP Number=Sing 71 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 75 , , PUNCT , _ 76 punct _ _ 76 Ashuelot Ashuelot PROPN NNP Number=Sing 74 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 77 , , PUNCT , _ 78 punct _ _ 78 Nashua Nashua PROPN NNP Number=Sing 74 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 79 , , PUNCT , _ 80 punct _ _ 80 Keene Keene PROPN NNP Number=Sing 74 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 81 , , PUNCT , _ 83 punct _ _ 82 and and CCONJ CC _ 83 cc _ _ 83 stations station NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 84 on on ADP IN _ 87 case _ _ 85 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 87 det _ _ 86 _ _ PUNCT `` _ 87 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 87 Fitch Fitch PROPN NNP Number=Sing 83 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 88 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 90 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 89 burg burg NOUN NN Number=Sing 90 compound _ _ 90 Road Road PROPN NNP Number=Sing 87 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 91 ; ; PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 92 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 93 and and CCONJ CC _ 97 cc _ _ 94 just just ADV RB _ 97 advmod _ _ 95 as as SCONJ IN _ 97 mark _ _ 96 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 97 nsubj _ _ 97 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 98 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 99 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 99 Fitch Fitch PROPN NNP Number=Sing 97 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 100 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 99 punct _ _ 101 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 102 det _ _ 102 Mariner Mariner PROPN NNP Number=Sing 103 nsubj _ _ 103 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 97 parataxis _ _ 104 out out ADP IN _ 107 case _ _ 105 of of ADP IN _ 107 case _ _ 106 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 107 nmod:poss _ _ 107 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 103 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 108 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **swim** | past | the Whale | stations on the Fitch | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **swim** | past | the Whale *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **swim** | past | the Whale *not said here* | | | | | with both flippers and Whale's tail; hard *property* | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with flipper=Theme | | 4 | **see** | past | Whale | the Mariner's natal shore and the white cliffs of Albion | | last | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shore=Stimulus | | 5 | **rush** | past | Albion | half way | | the beach | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent way=Theme up beach=Trajectory | | 6 | **open** | past | the Whale *not said here* | Albion's mouth | | | | wide *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Whale *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **change** | infinitive | | | | here | | for Winchester and Ashuelot and Nashua and Keene | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Albion | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **walk out** | past | the Mariner | Albion's mouth | | | | | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=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. **Text:** «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 2781 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/2/29/) - next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/2/31/) - ↑ back to [How the Whale Got His Throat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/2/)