Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 93

Only the Bat--the little upside-down Bat--that hung inside the Cave, knew where Cat hid; and every evening Bat would fly to Cat with news of what was happening.

Who acts: that, Cat, evening Bat · What happens: hang, know, hide, fly, cat, happen · To what, where: Cave · 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 (that, Cat, evening Bat), 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	Only	only	ADV	_	3 Bat	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Bat	det
3	Bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	--	--	PUNCT	_	10 Bat	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Bat	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Bat	amod
7	upside	upside	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Bat	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 down	punct
9	down	down	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Bat	compound
10	Bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Bat	appos
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	13 hung	punct
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 hung	nsubj
13	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 Bat	parataxis
14	inside	inside	ADP	_	16 Cave	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Cave	det
16	Cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hung	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 knew	punct
18	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 hung	conj
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 hid	advmod
20	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hid	nsubj
21	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 knew	ccomp
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 fly	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 fly	cc
24	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	26 Bat	det
25	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 Bat	compound
26	Bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fly	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 fly	aux
28	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 hung	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 Cat	mark
30	Cat	cat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 fly	xcomp
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 news	case
32	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 Cat	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 what	case
34	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 news	nmod
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 happening	aux
36	happening	happen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 what	acl:relcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 Bat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	hang	past	that	the Cave		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent inside cave=Location
2	know	past	that not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	hide	past	Cat			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	fly	would	every evening Bat			tree rules
5	cat	to-infinitive	every evening Bat not said here		with news	tree rules
6	happen	past · progressive				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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