Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 166

PUSSY can sit by the fire and sing, Pussy can climb a tree, Or play with a silly old cork and string To’muse herself, not me.

Who acts: PUSSY · What happens: sit, climb, play · To what, where: tree

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 (PUSSY), 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	PUSSY	pussy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sit	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sit	aux
3	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 fire	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fire	det
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sit	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sing	cc
8	sing	sing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fire	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 climb	punct
10	Pussy	Pussy	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 climb	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 climb	aux
12	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sit	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 tree	det
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 climb	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 play	punct
16	Or	or	CCONJ	_	17 play	cc
17	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sit	conj
18	with	with	ADP	_	22 cork	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 cork	det
20	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 cork	amod
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 cork	amod
22	cork	cork	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 play	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 string	cc
24	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cork	conj
25	To’muse	to'muse	ADP	_	26 herself	case
26	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 play	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 me	punct
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 me	advmod
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 play	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sit	can	PUSSY		by the fire and sing	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location
2	climb	can	Pussy	a tree		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme
3	play	infinitive	PUSSY not said here		with a silly old cork and string; to'muse PUSSY	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with cork=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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