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title: That very minute and second, Best Beloved, the dried horse-skin Curt… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: That very minute and second, Best Beloved, the dried horse-skin Curtain that was stretched tail-down at the mouth of the Cave fell down--whoosh!--because it remembered the bargain she had made with the Cat, and when the Woman went to pick it up--lo and behold!--the Cat was sitting quite comfy inside
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# Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 110

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That very minute and second, Best Beloved, the dried horse-skin Curtain that was stretched tail-down at the mouth of the Cave fell down--whoosh!--because it remembered the bargain she had made with the Cat, and when the Woman went to pick it up--lo and behold!--the Cat was sitting quite comfy inside the Cave.

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**Who acts:** minute, whoosh, Beloved, Woman, Cat · **What happens:** dry, stretch down, fall down, remember, make, go · **To what, where:** dried skin Curtain, mouth, whoosh, bargain

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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 (minute, whoosh, Beloved, Woman), 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:pg2781:12:110
# text = That very minute and second, Best Beloved, the dried horse-skin Curtain that was stretched tail-down at the mouth of the Cave fell down--whoosh!--because it remembered the bargain she had made with the Cat, and when the Woman went to pick it up--lo and behold!--the Cat was sitting quite comfy inside the Cave.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	second	second	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	Best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	Beloved	Beloved	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
11	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
12	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Curtain	curtain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	down	down	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
29	down	down	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	whoosh	whoosh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	bargain	bargain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	38	acl:relcl	_	_
42	with	with	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
47	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	50	advmod	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	Woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
50	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	conj	_	_
51	to	to	PART	TO	_	52	mark	_	_
52	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	xcomp	_	_
53	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obj	_	_
54	up	up	ADP	RP	_	52	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	50	discourse	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
58	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	56	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	56	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	nsubj	_	_
63	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	64	aux	_	_
64	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	advcl	_	_
65	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	66	advmod	_	_
66	comfy	comfy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	64	xcomp	_	_
67	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	69	case	_	_
68	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	69	det	_	_
69	Cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	66	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dry** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **stretch down** | past · passive |  | the dried skin Curtain |  | the mouth of the Cave |  | tail *obl*; down *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **fall down** | past | that minute and the dried skin Curtain | whoosh |  |  |  | down *property* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient whoosh=Result |
| 4 | **remember** | past | whoosh | the bargain |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent bargain=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | past · perfect | Beloved | the bargain *not said here* |  |  |  | with the Cat | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bargain=Product |
| 6 | **go** | past | the Woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **pick up** | to-infinitive | the Woman *not said here* | bargain |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 8 | **sit** | past · progressive | the Cat |  |  |  |  | comfy *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «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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