Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 48
When the Woman heard Wild Horse tripping and stumbling on his long mane, she laughed and said, ‘Here comes the second.
Who acts: Woman · What happens: hear, stumble, laugh, say, come · To what, where: Wild Horse tripping, long mane · 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 (Woman), 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 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Woman | det |
| 3 | Woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 laughed | advcl |
| 5 | Wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tripping | amod |
| 6 | Horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tripping | compound |
| 7 | tripping | tripping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 stumbling | cc |
| 9 | stumbling | stumble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 tripping | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 mane | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 mane | nmod:poss |
| 12 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 mane | amod |
| 13 | mane | mane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stumbling | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 laughed | nsubj |
| 16 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 laughed | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 comes | punct |
| 20 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 comes | punct |
| 21 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 comes | advmod |
| 22 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | ccomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 second | det |
| 24 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 22 comes | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the Woman | Wild Horse tripping | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tripping=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | stumble | gerund | the Woman not said here | Cat's long mane | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on mane=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | laugh | past | Woman | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Woman not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | come | present | here | 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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