Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 104

So she carried him outside the Cave and gave him a handful of pebbles to play with.

Who acts: Woman · What happens: carry, give, play · To what, where: Baby, handful

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), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 carried	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 carried	nsubj
3	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 carried	obj
5	outside	outside	ADP	_	7 Cave	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Cave	det
7	Cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carried	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 gave	cc
9	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 carried	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 gave	iobj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 handful	det
12	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gave	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 pebbles	case
14	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 handful	nmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 play	mark
16	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 gave	advcl
17	with	with	ADP	_	16 play	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	carry	past	Woman	Baby		outside the Cave	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	give	past	Woman not said here	a handful of pebbles	Baby		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient handful=Theme
3	play	to-infinitive	Woman not said here				vn performance-26.7-1 «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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