Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 106

Then the Cat put out his paddy paw and patted the Baby on the cheek, and it cooed; and the Cat rubbed against its fat knees and tickled it under its fat chin with his tail.

Who acts: Cat, paw · What happens: put out, pat, coo, rub, tickle · To what, where: paddy paw, Baby, fat knees, paw, fat chin

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 (Cat, paw), 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 put	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Cat	det
3	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	nsubj
4	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 put	compound:prt
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 paw	nmod:poss
7	paddy	paddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 paw	compound
8	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 patted	cc
10	patted	pat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 put	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Baby	det
12	Baby	Baby	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 patted	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 cheek	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cheek	det
15	cheek	cheek	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 patted	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 cooed	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 cooed	cc
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 cooed	nsubj
19	cooed	coo	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 put	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 rubbed	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 rubbed	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Cat	det
23	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rubbed	nsubj
24	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 put	conj
25	against	against	ADP	_	28 knees	case
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 knees	nmod:poss
27	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 knees	compound
28	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 rubbed	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 tickled	cc
30	tickled	tickle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 put	conj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 tickled	obj
32	under	under	ADP	_	35 chin	case
33	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 chin	nmod:poss
34	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 chin	amod
35	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tickled	obl
36	with	with	ADP	_	38 tail	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 tail	nmod:poss
38	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 chin	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put out	past	the Cat	Cat's paddy paw		then		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent paw=Goal
2	pat	past	the Cat not said here	the Baby			on the cheek	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent baby=Experiencer on cheek=Theme
3	coo	past	paw					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	rub	past	the Cat		paw's fat knees			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent against knee=Destination
5	tickle	past	the Cat not said here	paw	paw's fat chin with Baby's tail			vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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