--- title: And so, says Kipling, cats catch mice and are kind to babies, but at… — Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself,… · tree and pragmatics description: And so, says Kipling, cats catch mice and are kind to babies, but at night they go out to the Wet Wild Woods and the Wet Wild Roofs, waving their wild tails and walking by their wild lones. Who acts: Kipling, cats, Man. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kipling, cats, Man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:095-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself.lesson:12 # text = And so, says Kipling, cats catch mice and are kind to babies, but at night they go out to the Wet Wild Woods and the Wet Wild Roofs, waving their wild tails and walking by their wild lones. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 095-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 so so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 5 Kipling Kipling PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obj 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 catch catch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:ccomp 9 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 21 out out ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 24 Wet Wet PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 25 Wild Wild PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 Woods Woods PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 29 Wet Wet PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 Wild Wild PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 Roofs roof NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 waving wave VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ _ 34 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 35 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 walking walk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 conj _ _ 39 by by ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 41 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 lones lone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Kipling | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **catch** | present | cats | mice | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | cats *not said here* | | | | | to babies; kind *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **go out** | present | Man | | | | night | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **wave** | gerund | Man *not said here* | Man's wild tails | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient | | 6 | **walk** | gerund | Man *not said here* | | | | | by Man's wild lones | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by lone=Trajectory | 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. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:095-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself.lesson:12`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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