Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 119
And he began to purr, loud and low, low and loud, till the Baby fell fast asleep.
Who acts: Cat, Baby · What happens: begin, purr, fall
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 (Cat, Baby), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 began | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 purr | mark |
| 5 | purr | purr | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 began | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 loud | punct |
| 7 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 purr | advcl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 low | cc |
| 9 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 loud | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 low | punct |
| 11 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 loud | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 loud | cc |
| 13 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 low | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fell | punct |
| 15 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 18 fell | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Baby | det |
| 17 | Baby | Baby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 fell | nsubj |
| 18 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 began | conj |
| 19 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 fell | advmod |
| 20 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fell | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Cat | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | purr | to-infinitive | Cat not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fall | past | the Baby | asleep, fast property | vn occur-48.3 «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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