Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 35

And he went back through the Wet Wild Woods waving his wild tail, and walking by his wild lone.

Who acts: Dog · What happens: go back, wave, walk · To what, where: Wet Wild Woods, wild tail

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 (Dog), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 went	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	through	through	ADP	_	9 Woods	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Woods	det
7	Wet	Wet	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Woods	compound
8	Wild	Wild	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Woods	compound
9	Woods	Woods	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 went	obl
10	waving	wave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 went	advcl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 tail	nmod:poss
12	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 tail	amod
13	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 waving	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 walking	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 walking	cc
16	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 went	advcl
17	by	by	ADP	_	20 lone	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 lone	nmod:poss
19	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 lone	amod
20	lone	lone	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 walking	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go back	past	Dog		the Wet Wild Woods		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	wave	gerund	Dog not said here	Dog's wild tail			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
3	walk	gerund	Dog not said here			by Dog's wild lone	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by lone=Trajectory

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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