Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 89

Then the Cat arched his back and said, ‘Now let the Curtain at the mouth of the Cave, and the Fire at the back of the Cave, and the Milk-pots that stand beside the Fire, remember what my Enemy and the Wife of my Enemy has said.’

Who acts: Cat, Milk pots · What happens: arch, say, let, stand, remember · To what, where: back, Curtain, mouth, Fire, Enemy · 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 (Cat, Milk pots), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 arched	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Cat	det
3	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 arched	nsubj
4	arched	arch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 back	nmod:poss
6	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 arched	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 arched	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 let	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 let	punct
11	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 let	advmod
12	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Curtain	det
14	Curtain	Curtain	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 let	obj
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 mouth	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 mouth	det
17	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 let	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 Cave	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Cave	det
20	Cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 mouth	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Fire	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 Fire	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Fire	det
24	Fire	Fire	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 arched	obl
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 back	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 back	det
27	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 arched	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 Cave	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Cave	det
30	Cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 back	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 pots	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 pots	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 pots	det
34	Milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 pots	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 Milk	punct
36	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 arched	parataxis
37	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 stand	nsubj
38	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 pots	acl:relcl
39	beside	beside	ADP	_	41 Fire	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 Fire	det
41	Fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 stand	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 remember	punct
43	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 stand	conj
44	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	54 said	obj
45	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 Enemy	nmod:poss
46	Enemy	Enemy	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 said	nsubj:pass
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 Wife	cc
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 Wife	det
49	Wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 Enemy	conj
50	of	of	ADP	_	52 Enemy	case
51	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 Enemy	nmod:poss
52	Enemy	Enemy	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 Wife	nmod
53	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	54 said	aux
54	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 remember	ccomp
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	36 pots	punct
56	’	'	PUNCT	_	36 pots	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arch	past	the Cat	Cat's back	the back of the Cave	then	the Fire obl	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	the Cat not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	let	infinitive		the Curtain	the mouth of the Cave	now		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent curtain=Theme at mouth=Asset
4	stand	present	the Milk pots		the Fire			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside fire=Location
5	remember	infinitive	the Milk pots not said here					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	say speech: assert	present · perfect · passive		my Enemy and the Wife of my Enemy				vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme what=Manner

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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