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title: Then the Woman laughed and set the Cat a bowl of the warm white milk… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the Woman laughed and set the Cat a bowl of the warm white milk and said, ‘O Cat, you are as clever as a man, but remember that your bargain was not made with the Man or the Dog, and I do not know what they will do when they come home.’ Who acts: Woman, you, I, places. A sentence of «Just so st
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# Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 139

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Then the Woman laughed and set the Cat a bowl of the warm white milk and said, ‘O Cat, you are as clever as a man, but remember that your bargain was not made with the Man or the Dog, and I do not know what they will do when they come home.’

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**Who acts:** Woman, you, I, places, your · **What happens:** laugh, set, say, be, remember, not make · **To what, where:** Cat, bargain · **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, you, I, places), 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:pg2781:12:139
# text = Then the Woman laughed and set the Cat a bowl of the warm white milk and said, ‘O Cat, you are as clever as a man, but remember that your bargain was not made with the Man or the Dog, and I do not know what they will do when they come home.’
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	21	discourse	_	_
21	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	as	as	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	remember	remember	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
33	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
34	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	bargain	bargain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
37	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
38	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	ccomp	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
42	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	Dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
47	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
48	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
49	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	50	advmod	_	_
50	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
51	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	54	obj	_	_
52	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
53	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
54	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	ccomp	_	_
55	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	57	advmod	_	_
56	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
57	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	54	advcl	_	_
58	home	home	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | past | the Woman |  |  |  | then |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **set** | past | the Woman *not said here* | the Cat |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme bowl=Destination |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | as a man; clever *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **remember** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **make** | past · passive |  | your bargain |  |  |  | with the Man or the Dog | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 7 | **not** **know** | present · do-support | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 8 | **do** | future | places *= place* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 9 | **come** | present | places *= place* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **bargain** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom bargain «communication intransitive»: poss=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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