Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 65
She will give us the warm white milk for always and always and always, and I will take care of her while you and the First Friend and the First Servant go hunting.
Who acts: Woman, I, you · What happens: give, take, go, hunt · To what, where: warm white milk, us, care
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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 give | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 give | aux |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 give | iobj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 milk | det |
| 6 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 milk | amod |
| 7 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 milk | amod |
| 8 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 always | case |
| 10 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 give | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 always | cc |
| 12 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 10 always | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 always | cc |
| 14 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 10 always | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 take | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 take | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 take | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 take | aux |
| 19 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 give | parataxis |
| 20 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 take | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 her | case |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 take | obl |
| 23 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 33 go | mark |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 go | nsubj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 Friend | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Friend | det |
| 27 | First | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 28 Friend | amod |
| 28 | Friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 you | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 Servant | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Servant | det |
| 31 | First | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 32 Servant | amod |
| 32 | Servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 Friend | conj |
| 33 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 take | advcl |
| 34 | hunting | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 go | xcomp |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | future | Woman | the warm white milk | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent we=Recipient milk=Theme for always=Asset | |||
| 2 | take | future | I | care | of Woman | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of she=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | go | infinitive | you | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | hunt | gerund | you not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «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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