Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 133
Cat made one jump and caught the little mouse, and the Woman said, ‘A hundred thanks.
Who acts: Cat, Woman · What happens: make, catch, say · To what, where: one jump, little 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 (Cat, Woman), 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 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 jump | nummod |
| 4 | jump | jump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 caught | cc |
| 6 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mouse | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mouse | amod |
| 9 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 caught | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Woman | det |
| 13 | Woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 thanks | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 thanks | punct |
| 17 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 hundred | det |
| 18 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 thanks | nummod |
| 19 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Cat | one jump | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jump=Product | ||||
| 2 | catch | past | Cat not said here | the little mouse | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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