Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 132

‘No,’ said the Woman, braiding up her hair, ‘eat it quickly and I will ever be grateful to you.’

Who acts: Woman, I · What happens: say, braid up, eat, be · To what, where: hair, you · 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, 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	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	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	_	9 braiding	punct
9	braiding	braid	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 said	advcl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 braiding	compound:prt
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hair	nmod:poss
12	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 braiding	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 eat	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 eat	punct
15	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 braiding	parataxis
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 eat	obj
17	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	15 eat	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 grateful	cc
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 grateful	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 grateful	aux
21	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	23 grateful	advmod
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 grateful	cop
23	grateful	grateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 eat	conj
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 you	case
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 grateful	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Woman					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	braid up	gerund	the Woman not said here	Woman's hair				vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
3	eat	infinitive		hair			quickly property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	is	future	I		you	ever	grateful property	tree rules

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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