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title: Out in the Wet Wild Woods all the wild animals gathered together whe… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Out in the Wet Wild Woods all the wild animals gathered together where they could see the light of the fire a long way off, and they wondered what it meant. Who acts: wild animals, animals, fire. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Cat That Walked By Himself, with its dependency 
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# Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 13

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Out in the Wet Wild Woods all the wild animals gathered together where they could see the light of the fire a long way off, and they wondered what it meant.

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**Who acts:** wild animals, animals, fire · **What happens:** gather, see, wonder, mean, light · **To what, where:** light, fire · **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 (wild animals, animals, fire), 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:pg2781:12:13
# text = Out in the Wet Wild Woods all the wild animals gathered together where they could see the light of the fire a long way off, and they wondered what it meant.
1	Out	out	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	Wet	Wet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	Wild	Wild	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Woods	Woods	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	together	together	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	advmod	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	off	off	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	wondered	wonder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
30	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	32	obj	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gather** | past | all wild animals |  |  |  |  | out, together *property* | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **see** | could | animals *= animal* | the light of the fire |  |  |  | a long way *obl:unmarked* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus |
| 3 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | past | animals *= animal* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **mean** | past | fire |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
| 5 | **light** |  |  | the fire |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon 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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