Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 52
And Wild Horse, tripping and stumbling on his long mane, said, ‘That is true; give it me to eat.’
Who acts: Wild Horse, That · What happens: trip, stumble, say, be, give, eat · To what, where: long mane, mane, me · 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 Horse, That), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tripping | cc |
| 2 | Wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Horse | amod |
| 3 | Horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tripping | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 tripping | punct |
| 5 | tripping | trip | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 said | ccomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 stumbling | cc |
| 7 | stumbling | stumble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 tripping | conj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 mane | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 mane | nmod:poss |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 mane | amod |
| 11 | mane | mane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stumbling | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 tripping | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 true | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 true | punct |
| 16 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 true | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 true | cop |
| 18 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 said | ccomp |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 give | punct |
| 20 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 true | parataxis |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 give | obj |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 give | iobj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 eat | mark |
| 24 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 give | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trip | gerund | Wild Horse | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stumble | gerund | Wild Horse not said here | Horse's long mane | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on mane=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | is | present | That | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | give | infinitive | mane | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient it=Theme | ||||
| 6 | eat | to-infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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