Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 97
‘He is fond of things that are soft and tickle,’ said the Bat.
Who acts: Baby, things · What happens: be, say · To what, where: Bat · 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 (Baby, things), 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 | _ | 4 fond | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fond | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fond | cop |
| 4 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 said | ccomp |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 things | case |
| 6 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fond | obl |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 soft | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 soft | cop |
| 9 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 things | acl:relcl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 tickle | cc |
| 11 | tickle | tickle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 soft | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fond | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 fond | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Bat | det |
| 16 | Bat | bat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Baby | of things; fond property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | things | soft property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Bat | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bat=Topic |
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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