Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 77

Then Cat pretended to be sorry and said, ‘Must I never come into the Cave?

Who acts: Cat, I · What happens: pretend, be, say, not come · To what, where: Cave · 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, I), 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	3 pretended	advmod
2	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pretended	nsubj
3	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 sorry	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 sorry	cop
6	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pretended	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pretended	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
11	Must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 come	aux
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 come	nsubj
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 come	advmod
14	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 pretended	conj
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 Cave	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Cave	det
17	Cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 come	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 pretended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	past	Cat		then		tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive	Cat not said here			sorry property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	Cat not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	not come	must	I	the 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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