Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 20

‘Then we can never be friends again,’ said Wild Dog, and he trotted off to the Cave.

Who acts: we, friends, Dog · What happens: not be, say, trot off · To what, where: friends, Cave · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (we, friends, Dog), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 friends	advmod
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 friends	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 friends	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 friends	advmod
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 friends	cop
7	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 said	nsubj
8	again	again	ADV	_	7 friends	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 friends	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 friends	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Wild	Wild	PROPN	_	13 Dog	flat
13	Dog	Dog	PROPN	_	11 said	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 trotted	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 trotted	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 trotted	nsubj
17	trotted	trot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
18	off	off	ADP	_	17 trotted	compound:prt
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 Cave	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Cave	det
21	Cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 trotted	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	not is a	can	we	friends		then; again	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	friends				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	trot off	past	Dog		the Cave		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to cave=Destination

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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