Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 95
He is new and pink and fat and small, and the Woman is very fond of him.’
Who acts: Bat, Woman · What happens: be
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, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 new | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 new | cop |
| 3 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 pink | cc |
| 5 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 new | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 fat | cc |
| 7 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 new | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 small | cc |
| 9 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 new | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fond | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 fond | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Woman | det |
| 13 | Woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fond | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 fond | cop |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 fond | advmod |
| 16 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 new | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 fond | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 new | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 new | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Bat | new property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Bat not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | be | Bat not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | be | Bat not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | is | present | the Woman | of Bat; fond property | 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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