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title: Then the Bat--the little upside-down bat--that hung in the mouth of… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the Bat--the little upside-down bat--that hung in the mouth of the Cave said, ‘O my Hostess and Wife of my Host and Mother of my Host’s Son, a Wild Thing from the Wild Woods is most beautifully playing with your Baby.’ Who acts: little upside down bat, Bat, Wild Thing. A sentence of «Just so st
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# Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 108

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Then the Bat--the little upside-down bat--that hung in the mouth of the Cave said, ‘O my Hostess and Wife of my Host and Mother of my Host’s Son, a Wild Thing from the Wild Woods is most beautifully playing with your Baby.’

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**Who acts:** little upside down bat, Bat, Wild Thing · **What happens:** hang, say, play · **To what, where:** mouth, Host · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (little upside down bat, Bat, Wild Thing), 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:pg2781:12:108
# text = Then the Bat--the little upside-down bat--that hung in the mouth of the Cave said, ‘O my Hostess and Wife of my Host and Mother of my Host’s Son, a Wild Thing from the Wild Woods is most beautifully playing with your Baby.’
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Bat	Bat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
7	upside	upside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	down	down	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	bat	bat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	25	discourse	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	Hostess	hostess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	ccomp	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	Wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	Host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	Mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	Host	Host	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	’s	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
37	Son	Son	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	Wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	Thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
42	from	from	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	Wild	Wild	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	Woods	Woods	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	41	nmod	_	_
46	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
47	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	48	advmod	_	_
48	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
49	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	acl:relcl	_	_
50	with	with	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	Baby	Baby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | past | the little upside down bat |  |  | the mouth of the Cave |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in mouth=Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Bat |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **play** | present · progressive | a Wild Thing from the Wild Woods | my Host and Mother of Host Son *not said here* |  |  |  | with your Baby; beautifully *property* | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent host=Theme with baby=Co-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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