Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 3

But the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat.

Who acts: wildest · What happens: be · To what, where: Cat

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 (wildest), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 wildest	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wildest	det
3	wildest	wild	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 Cat	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 animals	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 animals	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 animals	det
7	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 animals	amod
8	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wildest	nmod
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 Cat	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Cat	det
11	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 Cat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the wildest of all wild animals	the Cat					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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