Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 25

Wild Thing out of the Wild Woods, what do you want?’

Who acts: Wild Thing · What happens: want

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 Thing), 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	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Thing	amod
2	Thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 want	nsubj
3	out	out	ADP	_	7 Woods	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 Woods	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Woods	det
6	Wild	Wild	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Woods	compound
7	Woods	Woods	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 Thing	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 want	punct
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 want	obj
10	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 want	aux
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 want	nsubj
12	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 want	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present · do-support	Wild Thing out the Wild Woods						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

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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