Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 102
Next night Cat walked through the Wet Wild Woods and hid very near the Cave till morning-time, and Man and Dog and Horse went hunting.
Who acts: Next night Cat, Man · What happens: walk, hide, go, hunt · To what, where: Wet Wild Woods, Cave
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 (Next night Cat, Man), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Cat | amod |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Cat | compound |
| 3 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walked | nsubj |
| 4 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 Woods | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Woods | det |
| 7 | Wet | Wet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Woods | compound |
| 8 | Wild | Wild | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Woods | compound |
| 9 | Woods | Woods | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 walked | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 hid | cc |
| 11 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 walked | conj |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 hid | advmod |
| 13 | near | near | ADP | _ | 15 Cave | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Cave | det |
| 15 | Cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hid | obl |
| 16 | till | till | ADP | _ | 19 time | case |
| 17 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 time | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 morning | punct |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hid | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 went | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 went | cc |
| 22 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 went | nsubj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 Dog | cc |
| 24 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Man | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 Horse | cc |
| 26 | Horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Man | conj |
| 27 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 walked | conj |
| 28 | hunting | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 went | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | Next night Cat | the Wet Wild Woods | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through woods=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | hide | past | Next night Cat not said here | the Cave | time | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near cave=Location | |||
| 3 | go | past | Man and Dog and Horse | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | hunt | gerund | Man and Dog and Horse not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: 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.
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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