Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 155

‘Ah,’ said the Woman, listening, ‘this is a very clever Cat, but he is not so clever as the Dog.’

Who acts: Woman, this, Dog · What happens: say, listen, be, not be · To what, where: clever Cat · 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 (Woman, this, Dog), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Woman	det
7	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 listening	punct
9	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 said	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Cat	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 Cat	punct
12	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 Cat	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 Cat	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 Cat	det
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 clever	advmod
16	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Cat	amod
17	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 listening	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 clever	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 clever	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 clever	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 clever	cop
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 clever	advmod
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 clever	advmod
24	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	conj
25	as	as	ADP	_	27 Dog	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Dog	det
27	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 clever	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Woman			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	listen	gerund	the Woman not said here			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	this	a clever Cat		tree rules
4	not is	present	Dog		as the Dog; clever 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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