Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 26

Wild Dog said, ‘O my Enemy and Wife of my Enemy, what is this that smells so good in the Wild Woods?’

Who acts: Wild Dog, this · What happens: say, be · 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, this), 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	PROPN	_	2 Dog	flat
2	Dog	Dog	PROPN	_	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 Enemy	punct
6	O	o	INTJ	_	8 Enemy	discourse
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 Enemy	nmod:poss
8	Enemy	Enemy	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	parataxis
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Wife	cc
10	Wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Enemy	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 Enemy	case
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 Enemy	nmod:poss
13	Enemy	Enemy	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Wife	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 smells	punct
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 smells	obj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 smells	cop
17	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 smells	nsubj
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 smells	nsubj
19	smells	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 Enemy	acl:relcl
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 good	advmod
21	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 smells	xcomp
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 Woods	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Woods	det
24	Wild	Wild	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Woods	compound
25	Woods	Woods	PROPN	Number=Plur	21 good	obl
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 Enemy	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 Enemy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Wild Dog						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	this					good, smell 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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