Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 13

Out in the Wet Wild Woods all the wild animals gathered together where they could see the light of the fire a long way off, and they wondered what it meant.

Who acts: wild animals, animals, fire · What happens: gather, see, wonder, mean, light · To what, where: light, fire · 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 (wild animals, animals, fire), 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	Out	out	ADV	_	11 gathered	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	6 Woods	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Woods	det
4	Wet	Wet	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Woods	compound
5	Wild	Wild	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Woods	compound
6	Woods	Woods	PROPN	Number=Plur	1 Out	obl
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 animals	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 animals	det
9	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 animals	amod
10	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 gathered	nsubj
11	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	together	together	ADV	_	11 gathered	advmod
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 see	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 see	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 see	aux
16	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 gathered	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 light	det
18	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 see	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 fire	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 fire	det
21	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 light	nmod
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 way	det
23	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 way	amod
24	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 see	obl:unmarked
25	off	off	ADV	_	24 way	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 wondered	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 wondered	cc
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 wondered	nsubj
29	wondered	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 gathered	conj
30	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	32 meant	obj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 meant	nsubj
32	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 wondered	ccomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 gathered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	gather	past	all wild animals		out, together property	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	see	could	animals = animal	the light of the fire	a long way obl:unmarked	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus
3	wonder speech: ask	past	animals = animal			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	mean	past	fire			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
5	light			the fire		nom light «phenomenon 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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