Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 10

Then the Man went to sleep in front of the fire ever so happy; but the Woman sat up, combing her hair.

Who acts: Man, Woman · What happens: go, sleep, sit up, comb · To what, where: front, hair

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 (Man, Woman), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Man	det
3	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sleep	mark
6	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 went	xcomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 front	case
8	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sleep	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 fire	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fire	det
11	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 front	nmod
12	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	14 happy	advmod
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 happy	advmod
14	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sleep	advcl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 sat	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 sat	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Woman	det
18	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sat	nsubj
19	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 sat	compound:prt
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 combing	punct
22	combing	comb	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 sat	advcl
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 hair	nmod:poss
24	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 combing	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	go	past	the Man			then	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sleep	to-infinitive	the Man not said here		front of the fire		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location
3	sit up	past	the Woman				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	comb	gerund	the Woman not said here	Woman's hair			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient

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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