Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 87
‘And if you say three words?’ said the Cat.
Who acts: you, three words · What happens: say · To what, where: Cat · 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 (you, three words), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 say | cc |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 say | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 say | nsubj |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 words | nummod |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 said | nsubj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 words | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 words | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | ccomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Cat | det |
| 12 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | three words | the Cat | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cat=Topic |
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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