Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 168
Pussy will play man-Friday till It’s time to wet her paw And make her walk on the window-sill (For the footprint Crusoe saw); Then she fluffles her tail and mews, And scratches and won’t attend.
Who acts: Pussy, Crusoe · What happens: play, wet, make, walk, see, fluffle · To what, where: man, paw, PUSSY, window sill, footprint, 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 (Pussy, Crusoe), 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 play | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 play | aux |
| 3 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 play | obj |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 man | punct |
| 6 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 play | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 9 ’s | mark |
| 8 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 ’s | nsubj |
| 9 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 play | advcl |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ’s | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 wet | mark |
| 12 | wet | wet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 ’s | xcomp |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 paw | nmod:poss |
| 14 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wet | obj |
| 15 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 make | cc |
| 16 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 wet | conj |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 make | obj |
| 18 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 make | xcomp |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 sill | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sill | det |
| 21 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sill | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 window | punct |
| 23 | sill | sill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 walk | obl |
| 24 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 27 footprint | punct |
| 25 | For | for | ADP | _ | 27 footprint | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 footprint | det |
| 27 | footprint | footprint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sill | appos |
| 28 | Crusoe | Crusoe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 saw | nsubj |
| 29 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 footprint | acl:relcl |
| 30 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 27 footprint | punct |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 fluffles | punct |
| 32 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 34 fluffles | advmod |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 fluffles | nsubj |
| 34 | fluffles | fluffle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 play | parataxis |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 tail | nmod:poss |
| 36 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 fluffles | obj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 mews | cc |
| 38 | mews | mew | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 tail | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 scratches | punct |
| 40 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 scratches | cc |
| 41 | scratches | scratch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 fluffles | conj |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 attend | cc |
| 43 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 attend | aux |
| 44 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 45 attend | advmod |
| 45 | attend | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 scratches | conj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 play | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | future | Pussy | man | friday | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | |||
| 2 | wet | to-infinitive | Pussy not said here | PUSSY's paw | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent paw=Patient | ||||
| 3 | make | infinitive | Pussy not said here | PUSSY | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | walk | infinitive | PUSSY not said here | the window sill | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sill=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | see | past | Crusoe | the footprint not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer footprint=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | fluffle | present | Crusoe | PUSSY's tail and mews | then | tree rules | |||
| 7 | scratch | present | Crusoe not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | not attend | future | Crusoe not said here | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
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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