--- title: That very moment and second, O Best Beloved, the Milk-pot that stood… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: That very moment and second, O Best Beloved, the Milk-pot that stood by the fire cracked in two pieces--ffft--because it remembered the bargain she had made with the Cat, and when the Woman jumped down from the footstool--lo and behold!--the Cat was lapping up the warm white milk that lay in one of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/12/136/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Just so stories](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/) / [The Cat That Walked By Himself](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/12/) / 136 # Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 136 That very moment and second, O Best Beloved, the Milk-pot that stood by the fire cracked in two pieces--ffft--because it remembered the bargain she had made with the Cat, and when the Woman jumped down from the footstool--lo and behold!--the Cat was lapping up the warm white milk that lay in one of the broken pieces. **Who acts:** Milk pot, moment, ffft, Beloved, Woman, Cat · **What happens:** stand, crack, remember, make, jump down, lap up · **To what, where:** two pieces, bargain, footstool, warm white milk 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 (Milk pot, moment, ffft, Beloved), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2781:12:136 # text = That very moment and second, O Best Beloved, the Milk-pot that stood by the fire cracked in two pieces--ffft--because it remembered the bargain she had made with the Cat, and when the Woman jumped down from the footstool--lo and behold!--the Cat was lapping up the warm white milk that lay in one of the broken pieces. 1 That that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 2 very very ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 second second ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 O o INTJ UH _ 9 vocative _ _ 8 Best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 9 amod _ _ 9 Beloved Beloved PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 Milk Milk PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 pot pot NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 15 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 17 by by ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 cracked crack VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 -- -- PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ffft ffft NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 -- -- PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 because because SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 remembered remember VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 bargain bargain NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 31 acl:relcl _ _ 35 with with ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 Cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 40 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 43 advmod _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 Woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 43 jumped jump VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 44 down down ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 45 from from ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 footstool footstool NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 -- -- PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 lo lo INTJ UH _ 43 discourse _ _ 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 51 behold behold INTJ UH _ 49 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 52 ! ! PUNCT . _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 53 -- -- PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 54 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 55 Cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 nsubj _ _ 56 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 57 aux _ _ 57 lapping lap VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 43 advcl _ _ 58 up up ADP RP _ 57 compound:prt _ _ 59 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 62 det _ _ 60 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 62 amod _ _ 61 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 62 amod _ _ 62 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 obj _ _ 63 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 64 nsubj _ _ 64 lay lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 62 acl:relcl _ _ 65 in in ADP IN _ 66 case _ _ 66 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 64 obl _ _ 67 of of ADP IN _ 70 case _ _ 68 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 70 det _ _ 69 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 70 amod _ _ 70 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 66 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 71 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | past | the Milk pot | | | | | by the fire | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location | | 2 | **crack** | past | that moment | | | two pieces and ffft | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in piece=Location | | 3 | **remember** | past | ffft | the bargain | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent bargain=Theme | | 4 | **make** | past · perfect | Beloved | the bargain *not said here* | | | | with the Cat | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bargain=Product | | 5 | **jump down** | past | the Woman | | | the footstool | | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from footstool=Trajectory | | 6 | **lap up** | past · progressive | the Cat | the warm white milk | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient | | 7 | **lie** | past | the warm white milk | | | | | in one of the broken pieces | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in one=Location | | 8 | **break** | participle | | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 135](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/12/135/) - next →: [sentence 137](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/12/137/) - ↑ back to [The Cat That Walked By Himself](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/12/)