Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 29

The Woman said, ‘Wild Thing out of the Wild Woods, help my Man to hunt through the day and guard this Cave at night, and I will give you as many roast bones as you need.’

Who acts: Woman, Man, I, you · What happens: say, help, hunt, guard, give, need · To what, where: Man, Cave, many roast bones, you · 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, Man, I, you), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Woman	det
2	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Thing	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 Thing	punct
6	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Thing	amod
7	Thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	ccomp
8	out	out	ADP	_	12 Woods	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 Woods	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Woods	det
11	Wild	Wild	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Woods	compound
12	Woods	Woods	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 Thing	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 help	punct
14	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 Man	nmod:poss
16	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 help	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 hunt	mark
18	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 help	xcomp
19	through	through	ADP	_	21 day	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 day	det
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hunt	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 guard	cc
23	guard	guard	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 hunt	conj
24	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 Cave	det
25	Cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 guard	obj
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 night	case
27	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 guard	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 give	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 give	cc
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 give	nsubj
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 give	aux
32	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 help	conj
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 give	iobj
34	as	as	ADV	_	35 many	advmod
35	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 bones	amod
36	roast	roast	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 bones	compound
37	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 give	obj
38	as	as	SCONJ	_	40 need	mark
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	40 need	nsubj
40	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 give	advcl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 help	punct
42	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 help	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Woman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	help	infinitive		my Man			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent man=Beneficiary clause=Theme
3	hunt	to-infinitive	my Man not said here			day	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	guard	infinitive	my Man not said here	this Cave		night	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cave=Beneficiary
5	give	future	I	many roast bones	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient bone=Theme
6	need	present	you				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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