Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 37

When the Man waked up he said, ‘What is Wild Dog doing here?’

Who acts: Man, Wild Dog · What happens: wake up, say, do · 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 (Man, Wild 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 waked	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Man	det
3	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 waked	nsubj
4	waked	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 waked	compound:prt
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 doing	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 doing	punct
10	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 doing	obj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 doing	aux
12	Wild	Wild	PROPN	_	13 Dog	flat
13	Dog	Dog	PROPN	_	14 doing	nsubj
14	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 said	ccomp
15	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 doing	advmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 doing	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 doing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	wake up	past	the Man		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	Man		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	present · progressive	Wild Dog	here	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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