Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 141

‘If I have my place in the Cave by the fire and my warm white milk three times a day I do not care what the Man or the Dog can do.’

Who acts: I, Man · What happens: have, not care, do · To what, where: place, Cave

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 (I, Man), 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	_	4 have	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 have	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 place	nmod:poss
6	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 Cave	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Cave	det
9	Cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obl
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 fire	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fire	det
12	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 milk	cc
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 milk	nmod:poss
15	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 milk	amod
16	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 milk	amod
17	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fire	conj
18	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 times	nummod
19	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 care	obl:unmarked
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 day	det
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 care	obl:unmarked
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 care	nsubj
23	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 care	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 care	advmod
25	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 have	parataxis
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	33 do	obj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Man	det
28	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 do	nsubj
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 Dog	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Dog	det
31	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Man	conj
32	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 do	aux
33	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 care	ccomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	I	my place	the Cave		by the fire and my warm white milk	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient
2	not care	present · do-support	I			day; time		vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	do	can	the Man or the Dog					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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