Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 96
‘Ah,’ said the Cat, listening, ‘but what is the Baby fond of?’
What happens: say, listen, be · To what, where: Cat · 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: 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Cat | det |
| 7 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 listening | punct |
| 9 | listening | listen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 said | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fond | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 fond | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 fond | cc |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 fond | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 fond | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Baby | det |
| 16 | Baby | Baby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 fond | nsubj |
| 17 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 listening | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 fond | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Cat | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cat=Topic | |||||
| 2 | listen | gerund | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | 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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