Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 98

‘He is fond of warm things to hold in his arms when he goes to sleep.

Who acts: Baby, warm things · What happens: be, hold, go, sleep · To what, where: arms

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, warm 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	root	root
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	9 hold	mark
6	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 things	amod
7	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hold	nsubj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 hold	mark
9	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fond	ccomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 arms	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 arms	nmod:poss
12	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hold	obl
13	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 goes	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 goes	nsubj
15	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 hold	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 sleep	mark
17	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 goes	advcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fond	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Baby		fond property	tree rules
2	hold	to-infinitive	warm things	Baby's arms		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in arm=Location
3	go	present	Baby			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sleep	to-infinitive	Baby not said here			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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