Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 142

That evening when the Man and the Dog came into the Cave, the Woman told them all the story of the bargain while the Cat sat by the fire and smiled.

Who acts: Man, Woman, Cat · What happens: come, tell, sit, smile · To what, where: Cave, story, places · 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 (Man, Woman, Cat), 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 evening	det
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	obl:unmarked
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 came	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Man	det
5	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Dog	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Dog	det
8	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Man	conj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 Cave	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Cave	det
12	Cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Woman	det
15	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 told	nsubj
16	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 told	iobj
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 story	det:predet
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 story	det
20	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 told	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 bargain	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 bargain	det
23	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 story	nmod
24	while	while	SCONJ	_	27 sat	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Cat	det
26	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sat	nsubj
27	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 told	advcl
28	by	by	ADP	_	30 fire	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 fire	det
30	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sat	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 smiled	cc
32	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 sat	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the Man and the Dog			the Cave	evening		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into cave=Initial_Location
2	tell speech: assert	past	the Woman	all story of the bargain	places = place				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient story=Topic
3	sit	past	the Cat					by the fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location
4	smile	past	the Cat not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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