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# Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 125

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Then the Woman was very very angry, and let down her hair and put more wood on the fire and brought out the broad blade-bone of the shoulder of mutton and began to make a Magic that should prevent her from saying a third word in praise of the Cat.

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**Who acts:** Woman, Magic · **What happens:** be, let down, put, bring out, begin, make · **To what, where:** hair, more wood, fire, broad blade bone, Magic, third word · **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 (Woman, Magic), 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:pg2781:12:125
# text = Then the Woman was very very angry, and let down her hair and put more wood on the fire and brought out the broad blade-bone of the shoulder of mutton and began to make a Magic that should prevent her from saying a third word in praise of the Cat.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
11	down	down	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	amod	_	_
17	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
25	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
26	blade	blade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	mutton	mutton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	Magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	42	nsubj	_	_
41	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	prevent	prevent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	acl:relcl	_	_
43	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obj	_	_
44	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
45	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	42	advcl	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	48	amod	_	_
48	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	praise	praise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Woman |  |  |  | then | angry *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **let down** | infinitive |  | Woman's hair |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme |
| 3 | **put** | infinitive |  | more wood |  | the fire |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme on fire=Destination |
| 4 | **bring out** | past |  | the broad blade bone of the shoulder of mutton |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bone=Patient |
| 5 | **begin** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | a Magic |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset magic=Product |
| 7 | **prevent** | should | a Magic | Magic |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer she=Theme |
| 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | a Magic *not said here* | a third word |  | praise of the Cat |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent word=Theme in praise=Manner |
| 9 | **praise** |  |  | the Cat |  |  |  |  | nom praise «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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