Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 107
And the Baby laughed; and the Woman heard him and smiled.
Who acts: Baby, Woman · What happens: laugh, hear, smile · To what, where: Baby
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 (Baby, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 laughed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Baby | det |
| 3 | Baby | Baby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 laughed | nsubj |
| 4 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 heard | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 heard | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Woman | det |
| 8 | Woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heard | nsubj |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 laughed | parataxis |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 heard | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 smiled | cc |
| 12 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 heard | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | the Baby | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hear | past | the Woman | Baby | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | smile | past | the Woman not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/12/107/