Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 51

The Woman laughed, and picked up the blade-bone and looked at it, and said, ‘Wild Thing out of the Wild Woods, you did not come here for Wild Dog, but for the sake of this good grass.’

Who acts: Woman, you · What happens: laugh, pick up, look, say, not come · To what, where: blade bone · 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, you), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Woman	det
2	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laughed	nsubj
3	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 picked	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 picked	cc
6	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 laughed	parataxis
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 picked	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bone	det
9	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bone	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 blade	punct
11	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 picked	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 looked	cc
13	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 picked	conj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 looked	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laughed	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Thing	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 Thing	punct
21	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Thing	amod
22	Thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	ccomp
23	out	out	ADP	_	27 Woods	case
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 Woods	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Woods	det
26	Wild	Wild	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Woods	compound
27	Woods	Woods	PROPN	Number=Plur	22 Thing	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 come	punct
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 come	nsubj
30	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 come	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 come	advmod
32	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 said	conj
33	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 come	advmod
34	for	for	ADP	_	36 Dog	case
35	Wild	Wild	PROPN	_	36 Dog	flat
36	Dog	Dog	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 come	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 sake	punct
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 sake	cc
39	for	for	ADP	_	41 sake	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 sake	det
41	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laughed	conj
42	of	of	ADP	_	45 grass	case
43	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	45 grass	det
44	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 grass	amod
45	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 sake	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laughed	punct
47	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	the Woman				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pick up	participle		the blade bone			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Topic
3	look	past				at Thing	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	not come	past · do-support	you		here	for 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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