Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 103
The Woman was busy cooking that morning, and the Baby cried and interrupted.
Who acts: Woman, Baby · What happens: be, cook, cry, interrupt
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 (Woman, Baby), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Woman | det |
| 2 | Woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 busy | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 busy | cop |
| 4 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | cooking | cook | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 busy | advcl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 morning | mark |
| 7 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cooking | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cried | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Baby | det |
| 11 | Baby | Baby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 cried | nsubj |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 busy | parataxis |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 interrupted | cc |
| 14 | interrupted | interrupt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 cried | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 busy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Woman | busy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cook | gerund | the Woman not said here | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | the Baby | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | interrupt | past | the Baby not said here | 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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