Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 116
‘I will do so,’ said the Woman, ‘because I am at my wits’ end; but I will not thank you for it.’
Who acts: I, Woman · What happens: do, say, be, not thank · To what, where: end, you · 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 (I, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | parataxis |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 do | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Woman | det |
| 10 | Woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 end | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 end | punct |
| 13 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 20 end | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 end | nsubj |
| 15 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 end | cop |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 end | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 wits | nmod:poss |
| 18 | wits | wit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 end | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 18 wits | case |
| 20 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Woman | conj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 thank | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 thank | cc |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 thank | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 thank | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 thank | advmod |
| 26 | thank | thank | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 thank | obj |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 it | case |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 thank | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 thank | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 thank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | future | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Woman and my wits's end | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is | present | I | at my wits's end | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not thank speech: thank | future | I | you | for end | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent you=Theme for it=Attribute |
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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