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title: HEAR and attend and listen; for this befell and behappened and becam… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: HEAR and attend and listen; for this befell and behappened and became and was, O my Best Beloved, when the Tame animals were wild. Who acts: you, befell, Tame animals. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Cat That Walked By Himself, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 1

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HEAR and attend and listen; for this befell and behappened and became and was, O my Best Beloved, when the Tame animals were wild.

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**Who acts:** you, befell, Tame animals · **What happens:** hear, attend, listen, become, be · **To what, where:** Best Beloved

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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 (you, befell, Tame animals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2781:12:1
# text = HEAR and attend and listen; for this befell and behappened and became and was, O my Best Beloved, when the Tame animals were wild.
1	HEAR	hear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	attend	attend	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	listen	listen	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	befell	befell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	behappened	behappened	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
13	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	20	vocative	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	Best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	amod	_	_
20	Beloved	Beloved	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	Tame	tame	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **attend** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **listen** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **become** | past | this befell and behappened |  |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **is a** | past | this befell and behappened *not said here* | my Best Beloved |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | past | the Tame animals |  |  |  |  | wild *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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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