Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 70

I am the Cat who walks by himself, and I wish to come into your cave.’

Who acts: I, Cat · What happens: be, walk, wish, come · To what, where: Cat, cave

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 (I, Cat), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 Cat	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Cat	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Cat	det
4	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 walks	nsubj
6	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Cat	acl:relcl
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 himself	case
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 walks	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wish	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wish	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 wish	nsubj
12	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 walks	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 come	mark
14	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 wish	xcomp
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 cave	case
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 cave	nmod:poss
17	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 come	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 Cat	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 Cat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	I	the Cat			tree rules
2	walk	present	the Cat			by Cat	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by himself=Trajectory
3	wish	present	I				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	come not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here		your cave		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into cave=Initial_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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