Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 68

The Woman laughed and said, ‘Wild Thing out of the Wild Woods, go back to the Woods again, for I have braided up my hair, and I have put away the magic blade-bone, and we have no more need of either friends or servants in our Cave.

Who acts: Woman, I, we · What happens: laugh, say, go back, braid up, put away, have · To what, where: hair, magic blade bone, more need, friends · 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, we), 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 laughed	nsubj
3	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 said	cc
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laughed	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Thing	punct
7	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 Thing	punct
8	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Thing	amod
9	Thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	ccomp
10	out	out	ADP	_	14 Woods	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 Woods	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Woods	det
13	Wild	Wild	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Woods	compound
14	Woods	Woods	PROPN	Number=Plur	9 Thing	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 go	punct
16	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
17	back	back	ADV	_	16 go	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 Woods	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Woods	det
20	Woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 go	obl
21	again	again	ADV	_	16 go	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 braided	punct
23	for	for	SCONJ	_	26 braided	mark
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 braided	nsubj
25	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 braided	aux
26	braided	braid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 go	advcl
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 braided	compound:prt
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 hair	nmod:poss
29	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 braided	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 put	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 put	cc
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 put	nsubj
33	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 put	aux
34	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 laughed	conj
35	away	away	ADV	_	34 put	advmod
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 bone	det
37	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 bone	amod
38	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 bone	compound
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 blade	punct
40	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 put	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 have	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 have	cc
43	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 have	nsubj
44	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 laughed	parataxis
45	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	47 need	det
46	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	47 need	amod
47	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 have	obj
48	of	of	ADP	_	50 friends	case
49	either	either	CCONJ	_	50 friends	cc:preconj
50	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 need	nmod
51	or	or	CCONJ	_	52 servants	cc
52	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 friends	conj
53	in	in	ADP	_	55 Cave	case
54	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 Cave	nmod:poss
55	Cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 friends	nmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	the Woman				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the Woman not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go back	infinitive			again	to the Woods result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to wood=Result
4	braid up	present · perfect	I	my hair			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
5	put away	present · perfect	I	the magic blade bone		away property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent bone=Goal
6	have	present	we	no more need of friends in our Cave or servants			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Patient
7	need			friends in our Cave or servants			nom need «state transitive»: of=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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