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Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 144

Then he took off his two leather boots and he took up his little stone axe (that makes three) and he fetched a piece of wood and a hatchet (that is five altogether), and he set them out in a row and he said, ‘Now we will make our bargain.

Who acts: Man, little stone axe, that, we, our · What happens: take off, take up, make, fetch, be, set out · To what, where: two leather boots, little stone axe, three, piece, five, pieces · 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, little stone axe, that, we), 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

advmodnsubjcompound:prtnmod:possnummodcompoundobjccnsubjconjcompound:prtnmod:possamodcompoundobjpunctnsubjacl:relclobjpunctccnsubjconjdetobjcasenmodccdetconjpunctnsubjcopparataxisadvmodpunctpunctccnsubjconjobjcompound:prtcasedetoblccnsubjconjpunctpunctadvmodnsubjauxccompnmod:possobjpunctrootThenADVhePRONtookVERBoffADPhisPRONtwoNUMleatherNOUNbootsNOUNandCCONJhePRONtookVERBupADPhisPRONlittleADJstoneNOUNaxeNOUN(PUNCTthatPRONmakesVERBthreeNUM)PUNCTandCCONJhePRONfetchedVERBaDETpieceNOUNofADPwoodNOUNandCCONJaDEThatchetNOUN(PUNCTthatPRONisAUXfiveNUMaltogetherADV)PUNCT,PUNCTandCCONJhePRONsetVERBthemPRONoutADPinADPaDETrowNOUNandCCONJhePRONsaidVERB,PUNCT‘PUNCTNowADVwePRONwillAUXmakeVERBourPRONbargainNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThenthenADVPronType=Dem3 tookadvmod
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 tooknsubj
3tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4offoffADP_3 tookcompound:prt
5hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs8 bootsnmod:poss
6twotwoNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card8 bootsnummod
7leatherleatherNOUNNumber=Sing8 bootscompound
8bootsbootNOUNNumber=Plur3 tookobj
9andandCCONJ_11 tookcc
10hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 tooknsubj
11tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 tookconj
12upupADP_11 tookcompound:prt
13hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs16 axenmod:poss
14littlelittleADJDegree=Pos16 axeamod
15stonestoneNOUNNumber=Sing16 axecompound
16axeaxeNOUNNumber=Sing11 tookobj
17((PUNCT_19 makespunct
18thatthatPRONPronType=Rel19 makesnsubj
19makesmakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin16 axeacl:relcl
20threethreeNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card19 makesobj
21))PUNCT_19 makespunct
22andandCCONJ_24 fetchedcc
23hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 fetchednsubj
24fetchedfetchVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 tookconj
25aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art26 piecedet
26piecepieceNOUNNumber=Sing24 fetchedobj
27ofofADP_28 woodcase
28woodwoodNOUNNumber=Sing26 piecenmod
29andandCCONJ_31 hatchetcc
30aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art31 hatchetdet
31hatchethatchetNOUNNumber=Sing26 piececonj
32((PUNCT_35 fivepunct
33thatthatPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem35 fivensubj
34isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin35 fivecop
35fivefiveNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card31 hatchetparataxis
36altogetheraltogetherADV_35 fiveadvmod
37))PUNCT_35 fivepunct
38,,PUNCT_41 setpunct
39andandCCONJ_41 setcc
40hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs41 setnsubj
41setsetVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 tookconj
42themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs41 setobj
43outoutADP_41 setcompound:prt
44ininADP_46 rowcase
45aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art46 rowdet
46rowrowNOUNNumber=Sing41 setobl
47andandCCONJ_49 saidcc
48hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs49 saidnsubj
49saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 tookconj
50,,PUNCT_55 makepunct
51‘'PUNCT_55 makepunct
52NownowADVPronType=Dem55 makeadvmod
53wewePRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs55 makensubj
54willwillAUXVerbForm=Fin55 makeaux
55makemakeVERBVerbForm=Inf49 saidccomp
56ourourPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs57 bargainnmod:poss
57bargainbargainNOUNNumber=Sing55 makeobj
58..PUNCT_3 tookpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1take offpastManMan's two leather bootsthenvn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boot=Theme
2take uppastManMan's little stone axevn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme
3makepresentMan's little stone axethreevn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset three=Product
4fetchpastMana piece of wood and a hatchetvn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme
5is apresentthatfivealtogether propertytree rules
6set outpastManpieces = piecea rowtree rules
7say speech: assertpastManvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8makefutureweour bargainnowvn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bargain=Product
9bargainournom 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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