Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 94
One evening Bat said, ‘There is a Baby in the Cave.
Who acts: Bat, Baby · What happens: say, be · 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 (Bat, Baby), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 evening | nummod |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | Bat | Bat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 is | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 is | punct |
| 7 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 is | expl |
| 8 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Baby | det |
| 10 | Baby | Baby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 is | nsubj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Cave | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Cave | det |
| 13 | Cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 is | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Bat | evening | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | be | present | a Baby | the Cave; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cave=Location |
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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