Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 55

Wild Horse bent his wild head, and the Woman slipped the plaited hide halter over it, and Wild Horse breathed on the Woman’s feet and said, ‘O my Mistress, and Wife of my Master, I will be your servant for the sake of the wonderful grass.’

Who acts: Wild Horse, Woman, I · What happens: bend, slip, plait, breathe, say, be · To what, where: wild head, plaited hide, head, feet, servant · 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, Woman, I), 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	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Horse	amod
2	Horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bent	nsubj
3	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 head	nmod:poss
5	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 head	amod
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bent	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 slipped	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 slipped	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Woman	det
10	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 slipped	nsubj
11	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bent	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hide	det
13	plaited	plait	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 hide	amod
14	hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 slipped	obj
15	halter	halter	ADV	_	11 slipped	advmod
16	over	over	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 slipped	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 breathed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 breathed	cc
20	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Horse	amod
21	Horse	Horse	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 breathed	nsubj
22	breathed	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bent	parataxis
23	on	on	ADP	_	27 feet	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Woman	det
25	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 feet	nmod:poss
26	’s	's	PART	_	25 Woman	case
27	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 breathed	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 said	cc
29	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 breathed	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 Mistress	punct
31	‘	'	PUNCT	_	34 Mistress	punct
32	O	o	INTJ	_	34 Mistress	discourse
33	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 Mistress	nmod:poss
34	Mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 said	ccomp
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 Wife	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 Wife	cc
37	Wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bent	parataxis
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 Master	case
39	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 Master	nmod:poss
40	Master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 Wife	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 servant	punct
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 servant	nsubj
43	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 servant	aux
44	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	46 servant	cop
45	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 servant	nmod:poss
46	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bent	parataxis
47	for	for	ADP	_	49 sake	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 sake	det
49	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 servant	nmod
50	of	of	ADP	_	53 grass	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 grass	det
52	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 grass	amod
53	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 sake	nmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	46 servant	punct
55	’	'	PUNCT	_	46 servant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bend	past	Wild Horse	Horse's wild head			vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent head=Material
2	slip	past	the Woman	the plaited hide	head	halter property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent hide=Patient
3	plait	participle					vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	breathe	past	Wild Horse		the Woman's feet		vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Agent on foot=Destination
5	say speech: assert	past	Wild Horse not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is a	future	I	your servant		for the sake of the wonderful grass	tree rules

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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