Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 108
Then the Bat--the little upside-down bat--that hung in the mouth of the Cave said, ‘O my Hostess and Wife of my Host and Mother of my Host’s Son, a Wild Thing from the Wild Woods is most beautifully playing with your Baby.’
Who acts: little upside down bat, Bat, Wild Thing · What happens: hang, say, play · To what, where: mouth, Host · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (little upside down bat, Bat, Wild Thing), 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 | 20 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Bat | det |
| 3 | Bat | Bat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 said | nsubj |
| 4 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 bat | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bat | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bat | amod |
| 7 | upside | upside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bat | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 down | punct |
| 9 | down | down | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bat | compound |
| 10 | bat | bat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Bat | appos |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 hung | punct |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 hung | nsubj |
| 13 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 bat | acl:relcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 mouth | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mouth | det |
| 16 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hung | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Cave | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Cave | det |
| 19 | Cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mouth | nmod |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 22 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 Hostess | punct |
| 23 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 25 Hostess | discourse |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 Hostess | nmod:poss |
| 25 | Hostess | hostess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 said | ccomp |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 Wife | cc |
| 27 | Wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Hostess | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Host | case |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 Host | nmod:poss |
| 30 | Host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Hostess | nmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 Mother | cc |
| 32 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Host | conj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 Son | case |
| 34 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 Host | nmod:poss |
| 35 | Host | Host | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Son | compound |
| 36 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 35 Host | case |
| 37 | Son | Son | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Mother | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 Thing | punct |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 Thing | det |
| 40 | Wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 Thing | amod |
| 41 | Thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 playing | nsubj |
| 42 | from | from | ADP | _ | 45 Woods | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 Woods | det |
| 44 | Wild | Wild | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 Woods | compound |
| 45 | Woods | Woods | PROPN | Number=Plur | 41 Thing | nmod |
| 46 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 49 playing | aux |
| 47 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 48 beautifully | advmod |
| 48 | beautifully | beautifully | ADV | _ | 49 playing | advmod |
| 49 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 Host | acl:relcl |
| 50 | with | with | ADP | _ | 52 Baby | case |
| 51 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 Baby | nmod:poss |
| 52 | Baby | Baby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 playing | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 Hostess | punct |
| 54 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 Hostess | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | past | the little upside down bat | the mouth of the Cave | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in mouth=Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Bat | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | play | present · progressive | a Wild Thing from the Wild Woods | my Host and Mother of Host Son not said here | with your Baby; beautifully property | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent host=Theme with baby=Co-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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