Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 11

She took the bone of the shoulder of mutton--the big fat blade-bone--and she looked at the wonderful marks on it, and she threw more wood on the fire, and she made a Magic.

Who acts: Woman · What happens: take, look, throw, make · To what, where: bone, more wood, fire, Magic

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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bone	det
4	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 shoulder	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shoulder	det
7	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bone	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 mutton	case
9	mutton	mutton	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shoulder	nmod
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	16 bone	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bone	det
12	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bone	amod
13	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bone	amod
14	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bone	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 blade	punct
16	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bone	conj
17	--	--	PUNCT	_	20 looked	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 looked	cc
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 looked	nsubj
20	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
21	at	at	ADP	_	24 marks	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 marks	det
23	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 marks	amod
24	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 looked	obl
25	on	on	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 marks	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 threw	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 threw	cc
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 threw	nsubj
30	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
31	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	32 wood	amod
32	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 threw	obj
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 fire	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 fire	det
35	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 threw	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 made	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 made	cc
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 made	nsubj
39	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 Magic	det
41	Magic	Magic	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 made	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	Woman	the bone of the shoulder of mutton and the big fat blade bone			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Theme
2	look	past	Woman			at the wonderful marks on mutton	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at mark=Theme
3	throw	past	Woman	more wood	the fire		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent wood=Theme on fire=Destination
4	make	past	Woman	a Magic			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magic=Product

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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