Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 165

Then he goes out to the Wet Wild Woods or up the Wet Wild Trees or on the Wet Wild Roofs, waving his wild tail and walking by his wild lone.

Who acts: Cat · What happens: go out, wave, walk · To what, where: wild 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), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 goes	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 goes	nsubj
3	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADV	_	3 goes	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	9 Woods	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Woods	det
7	Wet	Wet	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Woods	compound
8	Wild	Wild	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Woods	compound
9	Woods	Woods	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 goes	obl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 Trees	cc
11	up	up	ADP	_	15 Trees	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Trees	det
13	Wet	Wet	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Wild	compound
14	Wild	Wild	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Trees	compound
15	Trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 Woods	conj
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 Roofs	cc
17	on	on	ADP	_	21 Roofs	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Roofs	det
19	Wet	Wet	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Roofs	compound
20	Wild	Wild	PROPN	_	19 Wet	flat
21	Roofs	Roof	PROPN	Number=Plur	15 Trees	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 waving	punct
23	waving	wave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 goes	advcl
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 tail	nmod:poss
25	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 tail	amod
26	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 waving	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 walking	cc
28	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 waving	conj
29	by	by	ADP	_	32 lone	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 lone	nmod:poss
31	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 lone	amod
32	lone	lone	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 walking	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 goes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go out	present	Cat		then	to the Wet Wild Woods or the Wild Trees or the Wet Roofs; out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wave	gerund	Cat not said here	Cat's wild tail			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
3	walk	gerund	Cat not said here			by Cat's wild lone	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by lone=Trajectory

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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