Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 72

Cat grew very angry and said, ‘Has Wild Dog told tales of me?’

Who acts: Cat, Has Wild Dog, me · What happens: grow, say, tell · To what, where: tales · 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 (Cat, Has Wild Dog, me), 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	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grew	nsubj
2	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 angry	advmod
4	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 grew	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 said	cc
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 grew	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct
9	Has	Has	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Dog	compound
10	Wild	Wild	PROPN	_	11 Dog	flat
11	Dog	Dog	PROPN	_	12 told	nsubj
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
13	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 told	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 me	case
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 tales	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grow	past	Cat		angry property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Cat not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	past	Has Wild Dog	tales of me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient
4	tell		me			nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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