Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 73

Then the Woman laughed and said, ‘You are the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to you.

Who acts: Woman, You, Cat, places · What happens: laugh, say, be, walk · To what, where: you · 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, You, Cat, places), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 laughed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Woman	det
3	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laughed	nsubj
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 said	cc
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 laughed	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Cat	punct
8	‘	‘	ADP	_	12 Cat	case
9	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 Cat	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 Cat	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Cat	det
12	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	ccomp
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 walks	nsubj
14	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 Cat	acl:relcl
15	by	by	ADP	_	16 himself	case
16	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 walks	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 alike	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 alike	cc
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 places	det
20	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 alike	nsubj
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 alike	cop
22	alike	alike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 laughed	conj
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 you	case
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 alike	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	the Woman		then		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
3	is	present	You			‘ the Cat	tree rules
4	walk	present	the Cat			by Cat	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by himself=Trajectory
5	is	present	all places	you		alike property	tree rules

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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