Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 113
The Woman was very angry, and shut her lips tight and took up her spinning-wheel and began to spin.
Who acts: Woman · What happens: be, shut, take up, begin, spin · To what, where: lips, spinning wheel
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Woman | det |
| 2 | Woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 angry | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 angry | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 angry | advmod |
| 5 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 shut | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 shut | cc |
| 8 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 angry | parataxis |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 lips | nmod:poss |
| 10 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 shut | obj |
| 11 | tight | tight | ADV | _ | 8 shut | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 took | cc |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 shut | conj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 took | compound:prt |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 wheel | nmod:poss |
| 16 | spinning | spinning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wheel | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 spinning | punct |
| 18 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 began | cc |
| 20 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 took | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 spin | mark |
| 22 | spin | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 began | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Woman | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shut | past | Woman's lips | tight property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent lip=Patient | ||||
| 3 | take up | past | Woman's spinning wheel | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheel=Theme | |||||
| 4 | begin | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 5 | spin | to-infinitive | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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