Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 59

When the Man and the Dog came back from hunting, the Man said, ‘What is Wild Horse doing here?’

Who acts: Man, Wild Horse · What happens: come back, say, be, do · To what, where: hunting, Wild Horse · 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 (Man, Wild Horse), 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	7 came	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Man	det
3	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Dog	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Dog	det
6	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Man	conj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	advcl
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 hunting	case
10	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Man	det
13	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Horse	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 Horse	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 Horse	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 Horse	cop
19	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Horse	amod
20	Horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	ccomp
21	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 Horse	acl
22	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 doing	advmod
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	21 doing	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	20 Horse	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come back	past	the Man and the Dog		hunting	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hunting=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	the Man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present		Wild Horse		tree rules
4	do	gerund	Wild Horse not said here		here	vn act-114-1 «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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