Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 149

‘If you had not said that last I would have put all these things away for always and always and always; but I am now going to throw my two boots and my little stone axe (that makes three) at you whenever I meet you.

Who acts: you, I, little stone axe · What happens: not say, put, go, throw, make, meet · To what, where: I, two boots, three, you · 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 (you, I, little stone axe), 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	_	12 put	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 said	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 said	advmod
6	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 put	advcl
7	that	that	ADP	_	8 last	case
8	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	obl
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 put	nsubj:pass
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 put	aux
11	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 put	aux
12	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 things	det:predet
14	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	15 things	det
15	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 put	obj
16	away	away	ADV	_	12 put	advmod
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 always	case
18	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	12 put	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 always	cc
20	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	18 always	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 always	cc
22	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	18 always	conj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 going	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 going	cc
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 going	nsubj
26	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 going	aux
27	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 going	advmod
28	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 put	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 throw	mark
30	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 going	xcomp
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 boots	nmod:poss
32	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 boots	nummod
33	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 throw	obj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 axe	cc
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 axe	nmod:poss
36	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 axe	amod
37	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 axe	compound
38	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 throw	conj
39	(	(	PUNCT	_	41 makes	punct
40	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 makes	nsubj
41	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 axe	acl:relcl
42	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 makes	obj
43	)	)	PUNCT	_	41 makes	punct
44	at	at	ADP	_	45 you	case
45	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 throw	obl
46	whenever	whenever	SCONJ	_	48 meet	mark
47	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 meet	nsubj
48	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 throw	advcl
49	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	48 meet	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	you			that last	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	put	would · perfect · passive		I		away property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Asset thing=Goal
3	go	present · progressive	I		now		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	throw	to-infinitive	I not said here	my two boots		at you	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent boot=Theme at you=Destination
5	make	present	my little stone axe	three			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset three=Product
6	meet	present	I	you			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-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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