Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 42

Out in the Wild Woods all the wild animals wondered what had happened to Wild Dog, and at last Wild Horse stamped with his foot and said, ‘I will go and see and say why Wild Dog has not returned.

Who acts: wild animals, I, Wild Dog · What happens: wonder, happen, stamp, say, go, see · 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 (wild animals, I, 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	Out	out	ADV	_	10 wondered	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 Woods	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Woods	det
4	Wild	Wild	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Woods	compound
5	Woods	Woods	PROPN	Number=Plur	1 Out	obl
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 animals	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 animals	det
8	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 animals	amod
9	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 wondered	nsubj
10	wondered	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 happened	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 happened	aux
13	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 wondered	ccomp
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 Dog	case
15	Wild	Wild	PROPN	_	16 Dog	flat
16	Dog	Dog	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 happened	obl:agent
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stamped	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 stamped	cc
19	at	at	ADP	_	22 Horse	case
20	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Horse	amod
21	Wild	Wild	PROPN	_	22 Horse	flat
22	Horse	Horse	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 stamped	obl
23	stamped	stamp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 wondered	parataxis
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 foot	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 foot	nmod:poss
26	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stamped	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 said	cc
28	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 stamped	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 go	punct
30	‘	'	PUNCT	_	33 go	punct
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 go	nsubj
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 go	aux
33	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 said	ccomp
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 see	cc
35	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 go	conj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 say	cc
37	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 go	conj
38	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	43 returned	advmod
39	Wild	Wild	PROPN	_	40 Dog	flat
40	Dog	Dog	PROPN	_	43 returned	nsubj
41	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 returned	aux
42	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 returned	advmod
43	returned	return	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 say	ccomp
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 wondered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	past	all wild animals	out property	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	happen	past · perfect			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stamp	past		at last Wild Horse; with Dog's foot	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with foot=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	go	future	I		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	see	infinitive	I not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	say speech: assert	infinitive	I not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	not return	present · perfect	Wild Dog		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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