Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 8

She picked out a nice dry Cave, instead of a heap of wet leaves, to lie down in; and she strewed clean sand on the floor; and she lit a nice fire of wood at the back of the Cave; and she hung a dried wild-horse skin, tail-down, across the opening of the Cave; and she said, ‘Wipe you feet, dear, when you come in, and now we’ll keep house.’

Who acts: Woman, you, we · What happens: pick out, lie down, strew, light, hang, dry · To what, where: nice dry Cave, clean sand, floor, nice fire, back, dried horse skin · 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, we), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 picked	nsubj
2	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 picked	compound:prt
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 Cave	det
5	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Cave	amod
6	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Cave	amod
7	Cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 picked	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 heap	punct
9	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	12 heap	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	9 instead	fixed
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 heap	det
12	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 picked	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 leaves	case
14	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 leaves	amod
15	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 heap	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lie	punct
17	to	to	PART	_	18 lie	mark
18	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 picked	conj
19	down	down	ADP	_	18 lie	compound:prt
20	in	in	ADV	_	18 lie	advmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 strewed	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 strewed	cc
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 strewed	nsubj
24	strewed	strew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 picked	conj
25	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 sand	amod
26	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 strewed	obj
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 floor	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 floor	det
29	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 strewed	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 lit	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 lit	cc
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 lit	nsubj
33	lit	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 picked	conj
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 fire	det
35	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 fire	amod
36	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 lit	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 wood	case
38	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 fire	nmod
39	at	at	ADP	_	41 back	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 back	det
41	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 lit	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 Cave	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 Cave	det
44	Cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 back	nmod
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 hung	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 hung	cc
47	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 hung	nsubj
48	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 picked	conj
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 skin	det
50	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	54 skin	amod
51	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 horse	amod
52	-	-	PUNCT	_	51 wild	punct
53	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 skin	compound
54	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 hung	obj
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 down	punct
56	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 down	compound
57	-	-	PUNCT	_	58 down	punct
58	down	down	ADV	_	48 hung	advmod
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 opening	punct
60	across	across	ADP	_	62 opening	case
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 opening	det
62	opening	opening	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 hung	obl
63	of	of	ADP	_	65 Cave	case
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 Cave	det
65	Cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 opening	nmod
66	;	;	PUNCT	_	69 said	punct
67	and	and	CCONJ	_	69 said	cc
68	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	69 said	nsubj
69	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 picked	conj
70	,	,	PUNCT	_	72 Wipe	punct
71	‘	'	PUNCT	_	72 Wipe	punct
72	Wipe	wipe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	69 said	ccomp
73	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	72 Wipe	obj
74	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	72 Wipe	obj
75	,	,	PUNCT	_	76 dear	punct
76	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	72 Wipe	conj
77	,	,	PUNCT	_	80 come	punct
78	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	80 come	advmod
79	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	80 come	nsubj
80	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	72 Wipe	conj
81	in	in	ADV	_	80 come	advmod
82	,	,	PUNCT	_	87 keep	punct
83	and	and	CCONJ	_	87 keep	cc
84	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	87 keep	advmod
85	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	87 keep	nsubj
86	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	87 keep	aux
87	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 picked	advcl
88	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	87 keep	obj
89	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 picked	punct
90	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 picked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick out	past	Woman	a nice dry Cave			instead a heap of wet leaves	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cave=Patient
2	lie down	to-infinitive	Woman not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	strew	past	Woman	clean sand	the floor			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sand=Theme on floor=Destination
4	light	past	Woman	a nice fire of wood	the back of the Cave			vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product
5	hang	past	Woman	a dried horse skin	the opening of the Cave		down property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient
6	dry	participle						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	say speech: assert	past	Woman					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	wipe	infinitive		you				vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent you=Theme foot=Destination
9	come in	present	you					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	keep	future	we	house		now		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme
11	fire			wood				nom fire «event transitive»: of=patient

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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