---
title: The Woman was busy cooking that morning, and the Baby cried and inte… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: The Woman was busy cooking that morning, and the Baby cried and interrupted. Who acts: Woman, Baby. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Cat That Walked By Himself, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/12/103/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Just so stories](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/) / [The Cat That Walked By Himself](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/12/) / 103

# Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 103

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The Woman was busy cooking that morning, and the Baby cried and interrupted.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Woman, Baby · **What happens:** be, cook, cry, interrupt

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Woman, Baby), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg2781:12:103
# text = The Woman was busy cooking that morning, and the Baby cried and interrupted.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	cooking	cook	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Baby	Baby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	interrupted	interrupt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Woman |  |  |  |  | busy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cook** | gerund | the Woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the Baby |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **interrupt** | past | the Baby *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/12/102/)
- next →: [sentence 104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/12/104/)
- ↑ back to [The Cat That Walked By Himself](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/12/)