Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 134
Even the First Friend is not quick enough to catch little mice as you have done.
Who acts: First Friend, you · What happens: not be, catch, do · To what, where: little mice
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 (First Friend, you), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 4 Friend | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Friend | det |
| 3 | First | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 Friend | amod |
| 4 | Friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 quick | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 quick | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 quick | advmod |
| 7 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 7 quick | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 catch | mark |
| 10 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 quick | advcl |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 mice | amod |
| 12 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 catch | obj |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 done | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 done | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 done | aux |
| 16 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 catch | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 quick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | the First Friend | enough, quick property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | catch | to-infinitive | the First Friend not said here | little mice | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | present · perfect | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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