Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 1

HEAR and attend and listen; for this befell and behappened and became and was, O my Best Beloved, when the Tame animals were wild.

Who acts: you, befell, Tame animals · What happens: hear, attend, listen, become, be · To what, where: Best Beloved

This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Cat That Walked By Himself. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, befell, Tame animals), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	HEAR	hear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 attend	cc
3	attend	attend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 HEAR	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 listen	cc
5	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 HEAR	conj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 became	punct
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 befell	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 befell	det
9	befell	befell	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 became	nsubj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 behappened	cc
11	behappened	behappened	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 befell	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 befell	cc
13	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 HEAR	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 Beloved	cc
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 Beloved	cop
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Beloved	punct
17	O	o	INTJ	_	20 Beloved	vocative
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 Beloved	nmod:poss
19	Best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 Beloved	amod
20	Beloved	Beloved	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 became	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 wild	punct
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 wild	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 animals	det
24	Tame	tame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 animals	amod
25	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 wild	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 wild	cop
27	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 became	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 HEAR	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	imperative	you not said here			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	attend	infinitive	you not said here			vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	listen	infinitive	you not said here			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	become	past	this befell and behappened			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	is a	past	this befell and behappened not said here	my Best Beloved		tree rules
6	is	past	the Tame animals		wild property	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.

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