Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 115

‘O my Enemy and Wife of my Enemy and Mother of my Enemy,’ said the Cat, ‘take a strand of the wire that you are spinning and tie it to your spinning-whorl and drag it along the floor, and I will show you a magic that shall make your Baby laugh as loudly as he is now crying.’

Who acts: Enemy, wire, I, magic, Cat · What happens: say, take, spin, tie, drag, show · To what, where: Cat, strand, you, Baby · 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 (Enemy, wire, I, magic), 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	_	4 Enemy	punct
2	O	o	INTJ	_	4 Enemy	discourse
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 Enemy	nmod:poss
4	Enemy	Enemy	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 said	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Wife	cc
6	Wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Enemy	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 Enemy	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 Enemy	nmod:poss
9	Enemy	Enemy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Wife	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Mother	cc
11	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Enemy	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 Enemy	case
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 Enemy	nmod:poss
14	Enemy	Enemy	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Mother	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Enemy	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 Enemy	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Cat	det
19	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 take	punct
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 take	punct
22	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	ccomp
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 strand	det
24	strand	strand	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 take	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 wire	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 wire	det
27	wire	wire	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 strand	nmod
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 spinning	nsubj
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 spinning	nsubj
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 spinning	aux
31	spinning	spin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 wire	acl:relcl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 tie	cc
33	tie	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 take	conj
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 tie	obj
35	to	to	ADP	_	39 whorl	case
36	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 whorl	nmod:poss
37	spinning	spinning	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 whorl	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 spinning	punct
39	whorl	whorl	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tie	obl
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 drag	cc
41	drag	drag	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 take	conj
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 drag	obj
43	along	along	ADP	_	45 floor	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 floor	det
45	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 drag	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 show	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 show	cc
48	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	50 show	nsubj
49	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 show	aux
50	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	parataxis
51	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	50 show	iobj
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 magic	det
53	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 laugh	nsubj
54	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	56 make	nsubj
55	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 make	aux
56	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 magic	acl:relcl
57	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 Baby	nmod:poss
58	Baby	Baby	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 make	obj
59	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 show	parataxis
60	as	as	ADV	_	61 loudly	advmod
61	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	59 laugh	advmod
62	as	as	SCONJ	_	66 crying	mark
63	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	66 crying	nsubj
64	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	66 crying	aux
65	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	66 crying	advmod
66	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	59 laugh	advcl
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	50 show	punct
68	’	'	PUNCT	_	50 show	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	my Enemy and Wife of my Enemy and Mother of my Enemy	the Cat				tree rules
2	take	infinitive		a strand of the wire				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strand=Theme
3	spin	present · progressive	the wire					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	tie	present		strand			to your spinning whorl	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient to whorl=Co-Patient
5	drag	infinitive		strand			along the floor	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	show	future	I		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
7	make	shall	a magic	your Baby				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset baby=Product
8	laugh	present	a magic				loudly property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	cry speech: express	present · progressive	Cat			now		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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