Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 130

No indeed!’ said the Woman, and she dropped the blade-bone and jumped upon the footstool in front of the fire and braided up her hair very quick for fear that the mouse should run up it.

Who acts: Woman, mouse · What happens: say, drop, jump, braid up, run up · To what, where: blade bone, front, hair · 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, 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	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 said	ccomp
2	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 indeed	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Woman	det
7	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 dropped	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 dropped	cc
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 dropped	nsubj
11	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bone	det
13	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bone	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 blade	punct
15	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dropped	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 jumped	cc
17	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 dropped	conj
18	upon	upon	ADP	_	20 footstool	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 footstool	det
20	footstool	footstool	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 jumped	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 front	case
22	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 jumped	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 fire	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 fire	det
25	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 front	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 braided	cc
27	braided	braid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 dropped	conj
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 braided	compound:prt
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 hair	nmod:poss
30	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 braided	obj
31	very	very	ADV	_	32 quick	advmod
32	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 braided	parataxis
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 fear	case
34	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 quick	obl
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 run	mark
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 mouse	det
37	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 run	nsubj
38	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 run	aux
39	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 quick	advcl
40	up	up	ADP	_	39 run	compound:prt
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 run	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Woman			indeed property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	drop	past	Woman	the blade bone			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Theme
3	jump	past	Woman not said here		front of the fire	upon the footstool	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon footstool=Trajectory
4	braid up	past	Woman not said here	Woman's hair			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
5	run up	should	the mouse	hair			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=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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