--- title: Cat counted the Dog’s teeth (and they looked very pointed) and he sa… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: Cat counted the Dog’s teeth (and they looked very pointed) and he said, ‘I will be kind to the Baby while I am in the Cave, as long as he does not pull my tail too hard, for always and always and always. Who acts: Cat, teeth, Dog, I. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Cat That W --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/12/156/) [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/) / 156 # Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 156 Cat counted the Dog’s teeth (and they looked very pointed) and he said, ‘I will be kind to the Baby while I am in the Cave, as long as he does not pull my tail too hard, for always and always and always. **Who acts:** Cat, teeth, Dog, I · **What happens:** count, look, say, be, not pull · **To what, where:** teeth, Cave, tail · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Cat, teeth, Dog, I), 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:pg2781:12:156 # text = Cat counted the Dog’s teeth (and they looked very pointed) and he said, ‘I will be kind to the Baby while I am in the Cave, as long as he does not pull my tail too hard, for always and always and always. 1 Cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 counted count VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ’s 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 7 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 11 very very ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 pointed pointed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 20 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 22 cop _ _ 22 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 ccomp _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 Baby Baby PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 while while SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 28 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 Cave cave NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 33 as as ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 39 advmod _ _ 35 as as SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 36 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 37 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 38 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 39 advmod _ _ 39 pull pull VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 40 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 42 too too ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 43 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 39 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 45 for for ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 39 advmod _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 48 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 46 conj _ _ 49 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 50 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 46 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **count** | past | Cat | the Dog's teeth | | | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme | | 2 | **look** | past | teeth *= tooth* | | | | | pointed *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Dog | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | future | I | | | | | to the Baby; kind *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | I | | | the Cave | | | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **pull** | present · do-support | Dog | my tail | | | | always, hard, long *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme | 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 155](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/12/155/) - next →: [sentence 157](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/12/157/) - ↑ back to [The Cat That Walked By Himself](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/12/)