Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 92
Cat went far and far away and hid himself in the Wet Wild Woods by his wild lone for a long time till the Woman forgot all about him.
Who acts: Cat, Woman · What happens: go, hide, forget · To what, where: Cat, Wet Wild Woods
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, Woman), 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 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 away | cc |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 away | advmod |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 far | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 hid | cc |
| 8 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 hid | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Woods | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Woods | det |
| 12 | Wet | Wet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Woods | compound |
| 13 | Wild | Wild | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Woods | compound |
| 14 | Woods | Woods | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 hid | obl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 lone | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 lone | nmod:poss |
| 17 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 lone | amod |
| 18 | lone | lone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hid | obl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 time | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 time | det |
| 21 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 time | amod |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hid | obl |
| 23 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 26 forgot | mark |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Woman | det |
| 25 | Woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 forgot | nsubj |
| 26 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hid | advcl |
| 27 | all | all | ADV | _ | 29 him | advmod |
| 28 | about | about | ADP | _ | 29 him | case |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 forgot | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Cat | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hide | past | Cat not said here | Cat | the Wet Wild Woods | time | by Cat's wild lone | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in woods=Location | |
| 3 | forget | past | the Woman | about Cat | tree rules |
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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