Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 139

Then the Woman laughed and set the Cat a bowl of the warm white milk and said, ‘O Cat, you are as clever as a man, but remember that your bargain was not made with the Man or the Dog, and I do not know what they will do when they come home.’

Who acts: Woman, you, I, places, your · What happens: laugh, set, say, be, remember, not make · To what, where: Cat, bargain · 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, you, I, places), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 laughed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Woman	det
3	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laughed	nsubj
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 set	cc
6	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 laughed	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Cat	det
8	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 set	obj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bowl	det
10	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 set	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 milk	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 milk	det
13	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 milk	amod
14	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 milk	amod
15	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bowl	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 laughed	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Cat	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 Cat	punct
20	O	o	INTJ	_	21 Cat	discourse
21	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 clever	punct
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 clever	nsubj
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 clever	cop
25	as	as	ADV	_	26 clever	advmod
26	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Cat	conj
27	as	as	ADP	_	29 man	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 man	det
29	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 clever	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 remember	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 remember	cc
32	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 said	parataxis
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 made	mark
34	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 bargain	nmod:poss
35	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 made	nsubj:pass
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 made	aux:pass
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 made	advmod
38	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 remember	ccomp
39	with	with	ADP	_	41 Man	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 Man	det
41	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 made	obl
42	or	or	CCONJ	_	44 Dog	cc
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 Dog	det
44	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 Man	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 know	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 know	cc
47	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	50 know	nsubj
48	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 know	aux
49	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	50 know	advmod
50	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 laughed	parataxis
51	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	54 do	obj
52	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 do	nsubj
53	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 do	aux
54	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 know	ccomp
55	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	57 come	advmod
56	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 come	nsubj
57	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	54 do	advcl
58	home	home	ADV	_	57 come	advmod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 laughed	punct
60	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	the Woman		then		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	set	past	the Woman not said here	the Cat			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme bowl=Destination
3	say speech: assert	past	the Woman not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	you			as a man; clever property	tree rules
5	remember	infinitive					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	not make	past · passive		your bargain		with the Man or the Dog	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
7	not know	present · do-support	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	do	future	places = place				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
9	come	present	places = place			home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	bargain		your				nom bargain «communication intransitive»: poss=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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