Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 125

Then the Woman was very very angry, and let down her hair and put more wood on the fire and brought out the broad blade-bone of the shoulder of mutton and began to make a Magic that should prevent her from saying a third word in praise of the Cat.

Who acts: Woman, Magic · What happens: be, let down, put, bring out, begin, make · To what, where: hair, more wood, fire, broad blade bone, Magic, third word · 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 (Woman, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 angry	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Woman	det
3	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 angry	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 angry	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	7 angry	advmod
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 angry	advmod
7	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 let	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 let	cc
10	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 angry	parataxis
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 let	compound:prt
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hair	nmod:poss
13	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 let	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 put	cc
15	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 let	conj
16	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 wood	amod
17	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 put	obj
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 fire	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 fire	det
20	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 put	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 brought	cc
22	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 put	conj
23	out	out	ADP	_	22 brought	compound:prt
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 bone	det
25	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 bone	amod
26	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bone	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 blade	punct
28	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 brought	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 shoulder	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 shoulder	det
31	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bone	nmod
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 mutton	case
33	mutton	mutton	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 shoulder	nmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 began	cc
35	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 brought	conj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 make	mark
37	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 began	xcomp
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 Magic	det
39	Magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 make	obj
40	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 prevent	nsubj
41	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 prevent	aux
42	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 Magic	acl:relcl
43	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 prevent	obj
44	from	from	SCONJ	_	45 saying	mark
45	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 prevent	advcl
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 word	det
47	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	48 word	amod
48	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 saying	obj
49	in	in	ADP	_	50 praise	case
50	praise	praise	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 word	nmod
51	of	of	ADP	_	53 Cat	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 Cat	det
53	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 praise	nmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 angry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Woman			then	angry property	tree rules
2	let down	infinitive		Woman's hair				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme
3	put	infinitive		more wood	the fire			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme on fire=Destination
4	bring out	past		the broad blade bone of the shoulder of mutton				vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bone=Patient
5	begin	past						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	make	to-infinitive		a Magic				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset magic=Product
7	prevent	should	a Magic	Magic				vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer she=Theme
8	say speech: assert	gerund	a Magic not said here	a third word	praise of the Cat			vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent word=Theme in praise=Manner
9	praise			the Cat				nom praise «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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