Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 99
He is fond of being played with.
Who acts: Baby · What happens: be, play
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), 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 fond | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fond | cop |
| 3 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 played | mark |
| 5 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 played | aux:pass |
| 6 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 fond | advcl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 played | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fond | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Baby | fond property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | play | gerund · passive | Baby not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V» |
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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