Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 40

Next night the Woman cut great green armfuls of fresh grass from the water-meadows, and dried it before the fire, so that it smelt like new-mown hay, and she sat at the mouth of the Cave and plaited a halter out of horse-hide, and she looked at the shoulder of mutton-bone--at the big broad blade-bone--and she made a Magic.

Who acts: Woman, grass · What happens: cut, dry, smelt, sit, plait, look · To what, where: great green armfuls, water meadows, grass, mouth, halter, horse hide

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, grass), 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 night	amod
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cut	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Woman	det
4	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cut	nsubj
5	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 armfuls	amod
7	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 armfuls	amod
8	armfuls	armful	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cut	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 grass	case
10	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 grass	amod
11	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 armfuls	nmod
12	from	from	ADP	_	16 meadows	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 meadows	det
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 meadows	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 water	punct
16	meadows	meadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cut	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 dried	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 dried	cc
19	dried	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cut	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 dried	obj
21	before	before	ADP	_	23 fire	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 fire	det
23	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dried	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 smelt	punct
25	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	28 smelt	mark
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 so	fixed
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 smelt	nsubj
28	smelt	smelt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	19 dried	conj
29	like	like	ADP	_	33 hay	case
30	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 hay	amod
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 new	punct
32	mown	mown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 hay	amod
33	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 smelt	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 sat	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 sat	cc
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 sat	nsubj
37	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cut	parataxis
38	at	at	ADP	_	40 mouth	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 mouth	det
40	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 sat	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 Cave	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 Cave	det
43	Cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 mouth	nmod
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 plaited	cc
45	plaited	plait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 sat	conj
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 halter	det
47	halter	halter	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 plaited	obj
48	out	out	ADP	_	52 hide	case
49	of	of	ADP	_	52 hide	case
50	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 hide	compound
51	-	-	PUNCT	_	50 horse	punct
52	hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 plaited	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 looked	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 looked	cc
55	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 looked	nsubj
56	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cut	parataxis
57	at	at	ADP	_	59 shoulder	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 shoulder	det
59	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 looked	obl
60	of	of	ADP	_	63 bone	case
61	mutton	mutton	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 bone	compound
62	-	-	PUNCT	_	61 mutton	punct
63	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 shoulder	nmod
64	--	--	PUNCT	_	71 bone	punct
65	at	at	ADP	_	71 bone	case
66	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	71 bone	det
67	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	71 bone	amod
68	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	71 bone	amod
69	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	71 bone	compound
70	-	-	PUNCT	_	69 blade	punct
71	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 looked	conj
72	--	--	PUNCT	_	75 made	punct
73	and	and	CCONJ	_	75 made	cc
74	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	75 made	nsubj
75	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cut	conj
76	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	77 Magic	det
77	Magic	Magic	PROPN	Number=Sing	75 made	obj
78	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	past	the Woman	great green armfuls of fresh grass	the water meadows	night		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent armful=Product from meadow=Material
2	dry	past	the Woman not said here	grass		before the fire		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result
3	smelt	present	grass				like new mown hay	tree rules
4	sit	past	Woman		the mouth of the Cave			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at mouth=Location
5	plait	past	Woman not said here	a halter	horse hide			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent halter=Patient
6	look	past	Woman				at the shoulder of mutton bone	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at shoulder=Theme
7	make	past	Woman	a Magic				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magic=Product

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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