Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 147

The Cat counted the five things (and they looked very knobby) and he said, ‘I will catch mice when I am in the Cave for always and always and always; but still I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.’

Who acts: Cat, Enemies, I, places · What happens: count, look, say, catch, be, walk · To what, where: five things, mice, Cave, Cat, me · 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 (Cat, Enemies, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Cat	det
2	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 counted	nsubj
3	counted	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 things	det
5	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 things	nummod
6	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 counted	obj
7	(	(	PUNCT	_	10 looked	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 looked	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 looked	nsubj
10	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 counted	parataxis
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 knobby	advmod
12	knobby	knobby	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 looked	xcomp
13	)	)	PUNCT	_	10 looked	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 looked	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 catch	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 catch	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 catch	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 catch	aux
21	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	conj
22	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 catch	obj
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 Cave	advmod
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 Cave	nsubj
25	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 Cave	cop
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 Cave	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Cave	det
28	Cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 catch	obl
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 always	case
30	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	21 catch	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 always	cc
32	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	30 always	conj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 always	cc
34	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	30 always	conj
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 Cat	punct
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 Cat	cc
37	still	still	ADV	_	41 Cat	advmod
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 Cat	nsubj
39	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 Cat	cop
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 Cat	det
41	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 counted	obl
42	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 walks	nsubj
43	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 Cat	acl:relcl
44	by	by	ADP	_	45 himself	case
45	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	43 walks	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 alike	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 alike	cc
48	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	49 places	det
49	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 alike	nsubj
50	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 alike	cop
51	alike	alike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 counted	conj
52	to	to	ADP	_	53 me	case
53	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	51 alike	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 counted	punct
55	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 counted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	past	the Cat	the five things					vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
2	look	past	Enemies = enemy					knobby property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	Cat						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	catch	future	I	mice					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme for always=Beneficiary
5	is	present	I			the Cave			tree rules
6	is a	present	I	the Cat			still		tree rules
7	walk	present	the Cat					by Cat	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by himself=Trajectory
8	is	present	all places		me			alike property	tree rules

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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