--- title: Till at last there was only one small fish left in all the sea, and… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: Till at last there was only one small fish left in all the sea, and he was a small ‘Stute Fish, and he swam a little behind the Whale’s right ear, so as to be out of harm’s way. Who acts: Beloved. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Whale Got His Throat, with its dependency t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/2/4/) [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/) / 4 # Just so stories, How the Whale Got His Throat, sentence 4 Till at last there was only one small fish left in all the sea, and he was a small ‘Stute Fish, and he swam a little behind the Whale’s right ear, so as to be out of harm’s way. **Who acts:** Beloved · **What happens:** be, leave, swim · **To what, where:** one small fish, sea, right ear, way 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 (Beloved), 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:pg2781:2:4 # text = Till at last there was only one small fish left in all the sea, and he was a small ‘Stute Fish, and he swam a little behind the Whale’s right ear, so as to be out of harm’s way. 1 Till till ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 at at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 5 expl _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 6 only only ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 8 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 10 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 14 det:predet _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 21 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 Stute Stute PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 Fish Fish PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 swam swim VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 little little ADV RB Degree=Pos 27 advmod _ _ 30 behind behind ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 Whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ’s 's PART POS _ 32 case _ _ 34 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 37 so so ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 38 as as SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 45 mark _ _ 40 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 45 cop _ _ 41 out out ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 43 harm harm NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ’s 's PART POS _ 43 case _ _ 45 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | | | | | | last *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **leave** | participle | | one small fish *not said here* | | | | in all sea *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in sea=Result | | 3 | **is** | past | Beloved | | | | | Stute Fish *obl*; small *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **swim** | past | Beloved | | | the Whale's right ear | | little *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind ear=Trajectory | | 5 | **is** | to-infinitive | | | | harm's way | | | tree rules | 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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/2/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/2/5/) - ↑ back to [How the Whale Got His Throat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/2/)