Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 163
He will kill mice and he will be kind to Babies when he is in the house, just as long as they do not pull his tail too hard.
Who acts: Cat, trees · What happens: kill, be, not pull · To what, where: mice, Babies, house, tail
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, trees), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 kill | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 kill | aux |
| 3 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 kill | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 kind | cc |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 kind | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 kind | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 kind | cop |
| 9 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 kill | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Babies | case |
| 11 | Babies | Baby | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 kind | obl |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 house | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 house | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 house | cop |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 house | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 house | det |
| 17 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Babies | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 long | punct |
| 19 | just | just | ADV | _ | 21 long | advmod |
| 20 | as | as | ADV | _ | 21 long | advmod |
| 21 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 house | advmod |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 pull | mark |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 pull | nsubj |
| 24 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 pull | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 pull | advmod |
| 26 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 long | advcl |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 tail | nmod:poss |
| 28 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pull | obj |
| 29 | too | too | ADV | _ | 30 hard | advmod |
| 30 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 pull | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | future | Cat | mice | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | future | Cat | Babies | kind property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | present | Cat | the house | long property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | not pull | present · do-support | trees = tree | Cat's tail | hard 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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