Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 22
Why should I not go too and see and look and come away at my own liking.’
Who acts: I, you · What happens: not go, see, look, come away · To what, where: own liking
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 (I, you), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 go | advmod |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 go | nsubj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 go | advmod |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 see | advcl |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 go | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 see | cc |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 look | cc |
| 10 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 see | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 come | cc |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 look | conj |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 come | advmod |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 liking | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 liking | nmod:poss |
| 16 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 liking | amod |
| 17 | liking | liking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 come | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 see | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | should | I | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | imperative | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | look | infinitive | you not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | come away | infinitive | you not said here | my own liking | away property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at liking=Location |
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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