Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 126

It was not a Singing Magic, Best Beloved, it was a Still Magic; and by and by the Cave grew so still that a little wee-wee mouse crept out of a corner and ran across the floor.

Who acts: fire, Cave, little wee mouse · What happens: sing, not be, be, grow, creep out, run · To what, where: Singing Magic, Still Magic, corner, floor

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 (fire, Cave, little wee mouse), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 Magic	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Magic	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 Magic	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 Magic	det
5	Singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 Magic	compound
6	Magic	Magic	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Beloved	punct
8	Best	Good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Beloved	flat
9	Beloved	Beloved	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Magic	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Magic	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 Magic	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 Magic	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 Magic	det
14	Still	Still	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Magic	compound
15	Magic	Magic	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Magic	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 grew	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 grew	cc
18	by	by	SCONJ	_	23 grew	mark
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 grew	cc
20	by	by	ADP	_	22 Cave	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Cave	det
22	Cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 grew	nsubj
23	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Magic	acl:relcl
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 still	advmod
25	still	still	ADV	_	23 grew	advmod
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 crept	mark
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 mouse	det
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 mouse	amod
29	wee	wee	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 wee	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 wee	punct
31	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 mouse	amod
32	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 crept	nsubj
33	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 grew	advcl
34	out	out	ADP	_	37 corner	case
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 corner	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 corner	det
37	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 crept	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 ran	cc
39	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 crept	conj
40	across	across	ADP	_	42 floor	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 floor	det
42	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 ran	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 Magic	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not is a	past	fire	a Singing Magic and a Still Magic			tree rules
3	is a	past	fire	a Still Magic			tree rules
4	grow	past	the Cave	a Singing Magic and a Still Magic not said here		still	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location magic=Theme
5	creep out	past	a little wee mouse	a corner			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location corner=Theme
6	run	past	a little wee mouse not said here		the floor		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across floor=Trajectory

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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