Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 156
Cat counted the Dog’s teeth (and they looked very pointed) and he said, ‘I will be kind to the Baby while I am in the Cave, as long as he does not pull my tail too hard, for always and always and always.
Who acts: Cat, teeth, Dog, I · What happens: count, look, say, be, not pull · To what, where: teeth, Cave, tail · 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, teeth, Dog, 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 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 counted | nsubj |
| 2 | counted | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Dog | det |
| 4 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Dog | case |
| 6 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 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 | 2 counted | parataxis |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 pointed | advmod |
| 12 | pointed | pointed | 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 | 2 counted | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 kind | punct |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 kind | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 kind | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 kind | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 kind | cop |
| 22 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 said | ccomp |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 Baby | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Baby | det |
| 25 | Baby | Baby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 kind | obl |
| 26 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 31 Cave | mark |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 Cave | nsubj |
| 28 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 Cave | cop |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 Cave | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Cave | det |
| 31 | Cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 kind | advcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 pull | punct |
| 33 | as | as | ADV | _ | 34 long | advmod |
| 34 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 39 pull | advmod |
| 35 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 39 pull | mark |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 pull | nsubj |
| 37 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 pull | aux |
| 38 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 39 pull | advmod |
| 39 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 kind | conj |
| 40 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 tail | nmod:poss |
| 41 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 pull | obj |
| 42 | too | too | ADV | _ | 43 hard | advmod |
| 43 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 39 pull | advmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 always | punct |
| 45 | for | for | ADP | _ | 46 always | case |
| 46 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 39 pull | advmod |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 always | cc |
| 48 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 46 always | conj |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 always | cc |
| 50 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 46 always | conj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 counted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | past | Cat | the Dog's teeth | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | past | teeth = tooth | pointed property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Dog | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | future | I | to the Baby; kind property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | present | I | the Cave | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not pull | present · do-support | Dog | my tail | always, hard, long property | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme |
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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