Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 31

‘This is a very wise Woman, but she is not so wise as I am.’

Who acts: This, Woman · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: wise Woman

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 (This, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 Woman	punct
2	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 Woman	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 Woman	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 Woman	det
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 wise	advmod
6	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Woman	amod
7	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wise	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 wise	cc
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 wise	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 wise	cop
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 wise	advmod
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 wise	advmod
14	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Woman	conj
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 am	mark
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 am	nsubj
17	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 wise	advcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 Woman	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 Woman	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	This	a wise Woman					tree rules
2	not is	present	Woman					wise 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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