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title: Then he goes out to the Wet Wild Woods or up the Wet Wild Trees or o… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he goes out to the Wet Wild Woods or up the Wet Wild Trees or on the Wet Wild Roofs, waving his wild tail and walking by his wild lone. Who acts: Cat. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Cat That Walked By Himself, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 165

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Then he goes out to the Wet Wild Woods or up the Wet Wild Trees or on the Wet Wild Roofs, waving his wild tail and walking by his wild lone.

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**Who acts:** Cat · **What happens:** go out, wave, walk · **To what, where:** wild tail

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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 (Cat), 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:pg2781:12:165
# text = Then he goes out to the Wet Wild Woods or up the Wet Wild Trees or on the Wet Wild Roofs, waving his wild tail and walking by his wild lone.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	Wet	Wet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	Wild	Wild	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Woods	Woods	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	Wet	Wet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Wild	Wild	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	Wet	Wet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	Wild	Wild	PROPN	NNP	_	19	flat	_	_
21	Roofs	Roof	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	waving	wave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	conj	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	lone	lone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **go out** | present | Cat |  |  |  | then | to the Wet Wild Woods or the Wild Trees or the Wet Roofs; out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **wave** | gerund | Cat *not said here* | Cat's wild tail |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient |
| 3 | **walk** | gerund | Cat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by Cat's wild lone | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by lone=Trajectory |

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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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