Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 53

The Woman said, ‘Wild Thing out of the Wild Woods, bend your wild head and wear what I give you, and you shall eat the wonderful grass three times a day.’

Who acts: Woman, I, you · What happens: say, bend, wear, give, eat · To what, where: wild head, you, wonderful grass · 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, I, 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 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Thing	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 Thing	punct
6	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Thing	amod
7	Thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	ccomp
8	out	out	ADP	_	12 Woods	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 Woods	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Woods	det
11	Wild	Wild	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Woods	compound
12	Woods	Woods	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 Thing	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bend	punct
14	bend	bend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 said	parataxis
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 head	nmod:poss
16	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 head	amod
17	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bend	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 wear	cc
19	wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 bend	conj
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 wear	obj
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 give	nsubj
22	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 what	acl:relcl
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 give	iobj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 eat	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 eat	cc
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 eat	nsubj
27	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 eat	aux
28	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	parataxis
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 grass	det
30	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 grass	amod
31	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 eat	obj
32	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 times	nummod
33	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 eat	obl:unmarked
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 day	det
35	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 times	nmod:unmarked
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Woman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	bend	infinitive		your wild head			vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent head=Material
3	wear	infinitive					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent what=Theme
4	give	present	I		you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
5	eat	shall	you	the wonderful grass		time	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient

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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