Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 162
But the Cat keeps his side of the bargain too.
Who acts: Cat · What happens: keep · To what, where: side
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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 keeps | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Cat | det |
| 3 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keeps | nsubj |
| 4 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 side | nmod:poss |
| 6 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keeps | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 bargain | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bargain | det |
| 9 | bargain | bargain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 side | nmod |
| 10 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 keeps | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 keeps | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | the Cat | Cat's side of the bargain | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=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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