Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 15

Wild Dog lifted up his wild nose and smelled the smell of roast mutton, and said, ‘I will go up and see and look, and say; for I think it is good.

Who acts: Wild Dog, I, smell, roast mutton · What happens: lift up, smell, say, go up, see, look · To what, where: wild nose, smell · 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 (Wild Dog, I, smell, roast mutton), 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	Wild	Wild	PROPN	_	2 Dog	flat
2	Dog	Dog	PROPN	_	3 lifted	nsubj
3	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 lifted	compound:prt
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 nose	nmod:poss
6	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 nose	amod
7	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lifted	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 smelled	cc
9	smelled	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lifted	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 smell	det
11	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 smelled	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 mutton	case
13	roast	roast	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 mutton	compound
14	mutton	mutton	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 smell	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lifted	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 go	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 go	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 go	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 go	aux
22	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	ccomp
23	up	up	ADV	_	22 go	advmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 see	cc
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 go	conj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 look	cc
27	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 see	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 say	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 say	cc
30	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 go	conj
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 think	punct
32	for	for	SCONJ	_	34 think	mark
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 think	nsubj
34	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lifted	parataxis
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 good	nsubj
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 good	cop
37	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 think	ccomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lifted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lift up	past	Wild Dog	Dog's wild nose		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Theme
2	smell	past	Wild Dog not said here	the smell of roast mutton		vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer smell=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	Wild Dog not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go up	future	I			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	see	infinitive	I not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	look	infinitive	I not said here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
7	say speech: assert	infinitive	I not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
8	think speech: other	present	I			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	is	present	smell		good property	tree rules
10	smell		roast mutton			nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=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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