Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 131

‘Ah,’ said the Cat, watching, ‘then the mouse will do me no harm if I eat it?’

Who acts: mouse, I · What happens: say, watch, do, eat · To what, where: Cat, harm, me, mouse · 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 (mouse, I), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Cat	det
7	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 watching	punct
9	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 said	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 do	punct
11	‘	‘	CCONJ	_	16 do	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 do	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mouse	det
14	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 do	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 do	aux
16	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 watching	conj
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 do	iobj
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 harm	det
19	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 do	obj
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 eat	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 eat	nsubj
22	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 do	advcl
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 eat	obj
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the Cat			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cat=Topic
2	watch	gerund					vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
3	do	future	the mouse	no harm	me	then	tree rules
4	eat a condition, not said to happen	present	I	mouse			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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