Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 109

‘A blessing on that Wild Thing whoever he may be,’ said the Woman, straightening her back, ‘for I was a busy woman this morning and he has done me a service.’

Who acts: blessing, I · What happens: say, straighten, be, do · To what, where: back, busy woman, service, me · 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 (blessing, I), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 blessing	det
3	blessing	blessing	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 Thing	case
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 Thing	det
6	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Thing	amod
7	Thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blessing	nmod
8	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 be	nsubj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 be	nsubj
10	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 be	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 Thing	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 blessing	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Woman	det
16	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 straightening	punct
18	straightening	straighten	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 said	advcl
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 back	nmod:poss
20	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 straightening	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	28 woman	punct
23	for	for	SCONJ	_	28 woman	mark
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 woman	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 woman	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 woman	det
27	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 woman	amod
28	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	ccomp
29	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 morning	det
30	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 woman	obl:unmarked
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 done	cc
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 done	nsubj
33	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 done	aux
34	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 woman	conj
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 done	iobj
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 service	det
37	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 done	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 woman	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	28 woman	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	a blessing on that Wild Thing				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	straighten	gerund	a blessing on that Wild Thing not said here	Woman's back			vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent back=Patient
3	is a	past	I	a busy woman		morning	tree rules
4	do	present · perfect	blessing	a service	me		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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