Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 88

‘I never shall,’ said the Woman, ‘but if I say three words in your praise, you may drink the warm white milk three times a day for always and always and always.’

Who acts: Woman, I, you, your · What happens: say, drink, praise · To what, where: three words, praise, warm white milk · 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, you, your), 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	_	7 said	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 shall	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 shall	advmod
4	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 shall	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 shall	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Woman	det
9	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 drink	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 drink	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 drink	cc
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 say	mark
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 say	nsubj
15	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 drink	advcl
16	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 words	nummod
17	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 say	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 praise	case
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 praise	nmod:poss
20	praise	praise	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 words	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 say	punct
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 drink	nsubj
23	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 drink	aux
24	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 milk	det
26	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 milk	amod
27	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 milk	amod
28	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 drink	obj
29	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 times	nummod
30	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 drink	obl:unmarked
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 day	det
32	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 times	nmod:unmarked
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 always	case
34	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	24 drink	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 always	cc
36	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	34 always	conj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 always	cc
38	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	34 always	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
40	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Woman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	present	I	three words	your praise		vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent word=Theme in praise=Manner
3	drink	may	you	the warm white milk		time	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient
4	praise		your				nom praise «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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