Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 9

That night, Best Beloved, they ate wild sheep roasted on the hot stones, and flavoured with wild garlic and wild pepper; and wild duck stuffed with wild rice and wild fenugreek and wild coriander; and marrow-bones of wild oxen; and wild cherries, and wild grenadillas.

Who acts: feet · What happens: eat, roast, flavour, stuff · To what, where: wild sheep, wild duck

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 (feet), 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ate	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Beloved	punct
4	Best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 Beloved	amod
5	Beloved	Beloved	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 night	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 night	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ate	nsubj
8	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sheep	amod
10	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ate	obj
11	roasted	roast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 sheep	acl
12	on	on	ADP	_	15 stones	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 stones	det
14	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 stones	amod
15	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 roasted	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 flavoured	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 flavoured	cc
18	flavoured	flavour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 ate	conj
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 garlic	case
20	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 garlic	amod
21	garlic	garlic	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 flavoured	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 pepper	cc
23	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 pepper	amod
24	pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 garlic	conj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 duck	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 duck	cc
27	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 duck	amod
28	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ate	parataxis
29	stuffed	stuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 duck	acl
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 rice	case
31	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 rice	amod
32	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 stuffed	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 fenugreek	cc
34	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 fenugreek	amod
35	fenugreek	fenugreek	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 rice	conj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 coriander	cc
37	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 coriander	amod
38	coriander	coriander	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 fenugreek	conj
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 bones	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 bones	cc
41	marrow	marrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 bones	compound
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 marrow	punct
43	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ate	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 oxen	case
45	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 oxen	amod
46	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 bones	nmod
47	;	;	PUNCT	_	50 cherries	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 cherries	cc
49	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 cherries	amod
50	cherries	cherry	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ate	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 grenadillas	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 grenadillas	cc
53	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 grenadillas	amod
54	grenadillas	grenadilla	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ate	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	feet = foot	wild sheep	night	marrow bones of wild oxen obl; wild cherries obl; wild grenadillas obl	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Patient
2	roast	participle		wild sheep not said here		on the hot stones	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient on stone=Instrument
3	flavour	participle	feet = foot not said here			with wild garlic and wild pepper	tree rules
4	stuff	participle		wild duck not said here		with wild rice and wild fenugreek and wild coriander	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with rice=Theme

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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