Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 21

But when he had gone a little way the Cat said to himself, ‘All places are alike to me.

Who acts: Dog, Cat, places · What happens: go, say, be · To what, where: little way, Dog, me · 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 (Dog, Cat, places), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 gone	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 gone	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gone	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	aux
5	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 way	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 way	amod
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gone	obl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Cat	det
10	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 way	acl:relcl
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 himself	case
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 said	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 alike	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 alike	punct
16	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 places	det
17	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 alike	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 alike	cop
19	alike	alike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 said	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 me	case
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 alike	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	Dog	a little way			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the Cat	a little way not said here	Dog		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent way=Topic to himself=Recipient
3	is	present	all places		me	alike property	tree rules

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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