Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 24

When Wild Dog reached the mouth of the Cave he lifted up the dried horse-skin with his nose and sniffed the beautiful smell of the roast mutton, and the Woman, looking at the blade-bone, heard him, and laughed, and said, ‘Here comes the first.

Who acts: Wild Dog, Dog, roast mutton · What happens: reach, lift up, dry, sniff, look, hear · To what, where: mouth, dried horse skin, beautiful smell, Dog · 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 (Wild Dog, Dog, roast mutton), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 reached	mark
2	Wild	Wild	PROPN	_	3 Dog	flat
3	Dog	Dog	PROPN	_	4 reached	nsubj
4	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 lifted	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mouth	det
6	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reached	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 Cave	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Cave	det
9	Cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mouth	nmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 lifted	nsubj
11	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 lifted	compound:prt
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 skin	det
14	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 skin	amod
15	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 skin	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 horse	punct
17	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lifted	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 nose	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 nose	nmod:poss
20	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 skin	nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sniffed	cc
22	sniffed	sniff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 lifted	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 smell	det
24	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 smell	amod
25	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sniffed	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 mutton	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 mutton	det
28	roast	roast	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 mutton	compound
29	mutton	mutton	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 smell	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Woman	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 Woman	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Woman	det
33	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lifted	vocative
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 looking	punct
35	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 lifted	advcl
36	at	at	ADP	_	40 bone	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 bone	det
38	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 bone	compound
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 blade	punct
40	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 looking	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 heard	punct
42	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 lifted	parataxis
43	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 heard	obj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 laughed	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 laughed	cc
46	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 heard	conj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 said	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 said	cc
49	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 lifted	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 comes	punct
51	‘	'	PUNCT	_	52 Here	punct
52	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	53 comes	advmod
53	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 said	ccomp
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 first	det
55	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	53 comes	xcomp
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 lifted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	Wild Dog	the mouth of the Cave			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent mouth=Theme
2	lift up	past	Dog	the dried horse skin		with Dog's nose; the Woman vocative	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme
3	dry	participle					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	sniff	past	Dog not said here	the beautiful smell of the roast mutton			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smell=Theme
5	look	gerund	Dog not said here			at the blade bone	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at bone=Theme
6	hear	past		Dog			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
7	laugh	past					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	say speech: assert	past	Dog not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	come	present			here	first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	smell		the roast mutton				nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=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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