Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 27

Then the Woman picked up a roasted mutton-bone and threw it to Wild Dog, and said, ‘Wild Thing out of the Wild Woods, taste and try.’

Who acts: Woman · What happens: pick up, roast, throw, say, taste, try · To what, where: roasted mutton bone, smell, Wild 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 (Woman), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 picked	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Woman	det
3	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 picked	nsubj
4	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 picked	compound:prt
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bone	det
7	roasted	roast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 bone	amod
8	mutton	mutton	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bone	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 mutton	punct
10	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 picked	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 threw	cc
12	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 picked	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 threw	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 Dog	case
15	Wild	Wild	PROPN	_	16 Dog	flat
16	Dog	Dog	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 threw	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 picked	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Thing	punct
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 Thing	punct
22	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Thing	amod
23	Thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	ccomp
24	out	out	ADP	_	28 Woods	case
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 Woods	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Woods	det
27	Wild	Wild	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Woods	compound
28	Woods	Woods	PROPN	Number=Plur	23 Thing	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 taste	punct
30	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 picked	conj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 try	cc
32	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 taste	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 picked	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 picked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	pick up	past	the Woman	a roasted mutton bone		then	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Topic
2	roast	participle					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	throw	past	the Woman not said here	smell	Wild Dog		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme to dog=Destination
4	say speech: assert	past	the Woman not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	taste	infinitive	the Woman not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	try	infinitive	the Woman not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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