Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 91

That night when the Man and the Horse and the Dog came home from hunting, the Woman did not tell them of the bargain that she had made with the Cat, because she was afraid that they might not like it.

Who acts: Man, Woman, lones · What happens: come, not tell, make, be, not like · To what, where: hunting, lones, bargain · 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 (Man, Woman, lones), 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	12 came	obl:unmarked
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 came	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Man	det
5	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Horse	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Horse	det
8	Horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Man	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Dog	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Dog	det
11	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Man	conj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	home	home	ADV	_	12 came	advmod
14	from	from	ADP	_	15 hunting	case
15	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 tell	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Woman	det
18	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tell	nsubj
19	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 tell	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 tell	advmod
21	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 came	conj
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 tell	iobj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 bargain	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 bargain	det
25	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tell	obl
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 made	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 made	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 made	aux
29	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 tell	ccomp
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 Cat	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Cat	det
32	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 made	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 afraid	punct
34	because	because	SCONJ	_	37 afraid	mark
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 afraid	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 afraid	cop
37	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 made	advcl
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 like	mark
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 like	nsubj
40	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 like	aux
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 like	advmod
42	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 afraid	ccomp
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 like	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the Man and the Horse and the Dog			hunting	night	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hunting=Initial_Location
2	not tell speech: assert	past · do-support	the Woman		lones = lone			of the bargain	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
3	make	past · perfect	Woman					with the Cat	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	Woman					afraid property	tree rules
5	not like	might	lones = lone	bargain					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=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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