Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 153

And he showed his teeth and said, ‘If you are not kind to the Baby while I am in the Cave for always and always and always, I will hunt you till I catch you, and when I catch you I will bite you.

Who acts: Dog, you, I · What happens: show, say, not be, be, hunt, catch · To what, where: teeth, Cave, 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 (Dog, you, I), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 showed	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 showed	nsubj
3	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 teeth	nmod:poss
5	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 showed	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 showed	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 kind	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 kind	punct
10	If	if	SCONJ	_	14 kind	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 kind	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 kind	cop
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 kind	advmod
14	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	ccomp
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 Baby	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Baby	det
17	Baby	Baby	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 kind	obl
18	while	while	SCONJ	_	23 Cave	mark
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 Cave	nsubj
20	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 Cave	cop
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 Cave	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Cave	det
23	Cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 kind	advcl
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 always	case
25	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	23 Cave	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 always	cc
27	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	25 always	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 always	cc
29	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	25 always	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 hunt	punct
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 hunt	nsubj
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 hunt	aux
33	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 kind	conj
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 hunt	obj
35	till	till	SCONJ	_	37 catch	mark
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 catch	nsubj
37	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 hunt	advcl
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 catch	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 bite	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 bite	cc
41	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	43 catch	advmod
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 catch	nsubj
43	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 bite	advcl
44	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 catch	obj
45	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 bite	nsubj
46	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 bite	aux
47	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 showed	conj
48	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	47 bite	obj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 showed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	show	past	Dog	Dog's teeth			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tooth=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	Dog not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not is a condition, not said to happen	present	you			to the Baby; kind property	tree rules
4	is	present	I		the Cave		tree rules
5	hunt	future	I	you			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
6	catch	present	I	you			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
7	catch	present	I	you			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
8	bite	future	I	you			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient

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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