Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 118

‘Now,’ said the Cat, ‘I will sing the Baby a song that shall keep him asleep for an hour.

Who acts: I, song · What happens: say, sing, keep · To what, where: Cat, song, 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 (I, song), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Now	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Cat	det
7	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sing	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 sing	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 sing	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 sing	aux
12	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Baby	det
14	Baby	Baby	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 sing	obj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 song	det
16	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sing	obj
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 keep	nsubj
18	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 keep	aux
19	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 song	acl:relcl
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 keep	obj
21	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 keep	xcomp
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 hour	case
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 hour	det
24	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 keep	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the Cat		now		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cat=Topic
2	sing speech: express	future	I	a song	the Baby			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent baby=Beneficiary song=Theme
3	keep	shall	a song	Cat		hour	asleep property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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