Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 7

He didn’t even begin to be tame till he met the Woman, and she told him that she did not like living in his wild ways.

Who acts: Man, Woman · What happens: not begin, not be, meet, tell, not like, live · To what, where: Woman, Man, wild ways · 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, Woman), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 begin	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 begin	aux
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 begin	advmod
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 begin	advmod
5	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	8 tame	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 tame	cop
8	tame	tame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 begin	xcomp
9	till	till	SCONJ	_	11 met	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 met	nsubj
11	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tame	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Woman	det
13	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 met	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 told	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 told	cc
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 told	nsubj
17	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 begin	parataxis
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 told	iobj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 like	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 like	nsubj
21	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 like	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 like	advmod
23	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 told	ccomp
24	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 like	xcomp
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 ways	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 ways	nmod:poss
27	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 ways	amod
28	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 living	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 begin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not begin	past · do-support	Man					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	not is	to-infinitive	Man not said here				tame property	tree rules
3	meet	past	Man	the Woman				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Co-Agent
4	tell speech: assert	past	Woman		Man			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	not like	past · do-support	Woman					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	live not said to happen	gerund	Woman not said here			Man's wild ways		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=Location

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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