Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 114

But the Baby cried because the Cat had gone away, and the Woman could not hush it, for it struggled and kicked and grew black in the face.

Who acts: Baby, Cat, Woman, wheel · What happens: cry, go away, not hush, struggle, kick, grow · To what, where: 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 (Baby, Cat, Woman, wheel), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 cried	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Baby	det
3	Baby	Baby	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cried	nsubj
4	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 gone	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Cat	det
7	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gone	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 gone	aux
9	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 cried	ccomp
10	away	away	ADV	_	9 gone	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hush	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 hush	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Woman	det
14	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hush	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 hush	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 hush	advmod
17	hush	hush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 cried	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 hush	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 struggled	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 struggled	mark
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 struggled	nsubj
22	struggled	struggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 hush	parataxis
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 kicked	cc
24	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 struggled	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 grew	cc
26	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 kicked	conj
27	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 grew	xcomp
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 face	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 face	det
30	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 black	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	the Baby			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go away	past · perfect	the Cat		away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not hush	could	the Woman	wheel		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	struggle	past	wheel			vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	kick	past	wheel not said here			vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
6	grow	past	wheel not said here		black property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP 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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