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title: Next night Cat walked through the Wet Wild Woods and hid very near t… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Next night Cat walked through the Wet Wild Woods and hid very near the Cave till morning-time, and Man and Dog and Horse went hunting. Who acts: Next night Cat, Man. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Cat That Walked By Himself, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 102

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Next night Cat walked through the Wet Wild Woods and hid very near the Cave till morning-time, and Man and Dog and Horse went hunting.

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**Who acts:** Next night Cat, Man · **What happens:** walk, hide, go, hunt · **To what, where:** Wet Wild Woods, Cave

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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 (Next night Cat, Man), 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:pg2781:12:102
# text = Next night Cat walked through the Wet Wild Woods and hid very near the Cave till morning-time, and Man and Dog and Horse went hunting.
1	Next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	Wet	Wet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	Wild	Wild	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Woods	Woods	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	near	near	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	till	till	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
22	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	Dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	Horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
27	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
28	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past | Next night Cat |  |  | the Wet Wild Woods |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through woods=Trajectory |
| 2 | **hide** | past | Next night Cat *not said here* |  |  | the Cave | time |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near cave=Location |
| 3 | **go** | past | Man and Dog and Horse |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **hunt** | gerund | Man and Dog and Horse *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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