Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 78

Must I never sit by the warm fire?

Who acts: I · What happens: not sit

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), 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	Must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sit	aux
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 sit	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 sit	advmod
4	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	8 fire	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fire	det
7	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fire	amod
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sit	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sit	must	I					by the warm fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=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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