Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 47

But all the same he followed Wild Horse softly, very softly, and hid himself where he could hear everything.

Who acts: Cat · What happens: follow, hide, hear · To what, where: Wild Horse, Cat, everything

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 (Cat), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 same	cc
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 same	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 same	det
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 followed	nsubj
6	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 same	acl:relcl
7	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Horse	amod
8	Horse	Horse	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 followed	obj
9	softly	softly	ADV	_	6 followed	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 softly	punct
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 softly	advmod
12	softly	softly	ADV	_	6 followed	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hid	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 hid	cc
15	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 same	parataxis
16	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 hid	obj
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	20 hear	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 hear	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 hear	aux
20	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 hid	advcl
21	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	20 hear	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 same	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	past	Cat	Wild Horse	softly property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme
2	hide	past		Cat		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
3	hear	could	Cat	everything		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus

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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