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title: That very minute and second, Best Beloved, the smoke of the fire at… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: That very minute and second, Best Beloved, the smoke of the fire at the back of the Cave came down in clouds from the roof--puff!--because it remembered the bargain she had made with the Cat, and when it had cleared away--lo and behold!--the Cat was sitting quite comfy close to the fire. Who acts: m
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# Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 122

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That very minute and second, Best Beloved, the smoke of the fire at the back of the Cave came down in clouds from the roof--puff!--because it remembered the bargain she had made with the Cat, and when it had cleared away--lo and behold!--the Cat was sitting quite comfy close to the fire.

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**Who acts:** minute, puff, Beloved, Cat, fire · **What happens:** come down, remember, make, clear away, sit, smoke · **To what, where:** clouds, 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, puff, Beloved, Cat), 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:pg2781:12:122
# text = That very minute and second, Best Beloved, the smoke of the fire at the back of the Cave came down in clouds from the roof--puff!--because it remembered the bargain she had made with the Cat, and when it had cleared away--lo and behold!--the Cat was sitting quite comfy close to the fire.
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	21	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	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	down	down	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	puff	puff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	bargain	bargain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	36	acl:relcl	_	_
40	with	with	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
45	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	48	advmod	_	_
46	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
47	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
48	cleared	clear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	34	parataxis	_	_
49	away	away	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	34	discourse	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	51	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	nsubj	_	_
58	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	59	aux	_	_
59	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	advcl	_	_
60	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	61	advmod	_	_
61	comfy	comfy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	xcomp	_	_
62	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	xcomp	_	_
63	to	to	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
64	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	65	det	_	_
65	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come down** | past | that minute |  |  | clouds from the roof and puff |  | down *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cloud=Location |
| 2 | **remember** | past | puff | the bargain |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent bargain=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | past · perfect | Beloved | the bargain *not said here* |  |  |  | with the Cat | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bargain=Product |
| 4 | **clear away** | past · perfect | puff |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source |
| 5 | **sit** | past · progressive | the Cat |  |  |  |  | close, comfy *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **smoke** |  | the fire at the back of the Cave |  |  |  |  |  | nom smoke «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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