Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 23

So he slipped after Wild Dog softly, very softly, and hid himself where he could hear everything.

Who acts: Cat · What happens: slip, hide, hear · To what, where: Cat, everything

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 (Cat), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 slipped	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 slipped	nsubj
3	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	after	after	ADP	_	6 Dog	case
5	Wild	Wild	PROPN	_	6 Dog	flat
6	Dog	Dog	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 slipped	obl
7	softly	softly	ADV	_	3 slipped	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 softly	punct
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 softly	advmod
10	softly	softly	ADV	_	3 slipped	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hid	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hid	cc
13	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 slipped	conj
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 hid	obj
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 hear	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 hear	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 hear	aux
18	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 hid	advcl
19	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	18 hear	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 slipped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	slip	past	Cat		after Wild Dog	softly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	hide	past	Cat not said here	Cat			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
3	hear	could	Cat	everything			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus

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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