Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 82

Woman said, ‘I knew I was wise, but I did not know I was beautiful.

Who acts: Woman, I · What happens: say, know, be, not know · 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, 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	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 knew	punct
4	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 knew	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 knew	nsubj
6	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 wise	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 wise	cop
9	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 knew	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 know	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 know	cc
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 know	nsubj
13	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 know	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 know	advmod
15	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	conj
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 beautiful	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 beautiful	cop
18	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 know	ccomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Woman		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	know	past	I		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	I	wise property	tree rules
4	not know	past · do-support	I		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	past	I	beautiful 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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