--- title: The Dog was wild, and the Horse was wild, and the Cow was wild, and… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: The Dog was wild, and the Horse was wild, and the Cow was wild, and the Sheep was wild, and the Pig was wild--as wild as wild could be--and they walked in the Wet Wild Woods by their wild lones. Who acts: Dog, Horse, Cow, Sheep. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Cat That Walked --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/12/2/) [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/) / 2 # Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 2 The Dog was wild, and the Horse was wild, and the Cow was wild, and the Sheep was wild, and the Pig was wild--as wild as wild could be--and they walked in the Wet Wild Woods by their wild lones. **Who acts:** Dog, Horse, Cow, Sheep, Pig, animals · **What happens:** be, walk · **To what, where:** Wet Wild Woods 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 (Dog, Horse, Cow, Sheep), 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:pg2781:12:2 # text = The Dog was wild, and the Horse was wild, and the Cow was wild, and the Sheep was wild, and the Pig was wild--as wild as wild could be--and they walked in the Wet Wild Woods by their wild lones. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 Horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 Cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 Sheep Sheep PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 Pig pig NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 -- -- PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 as as ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 32 as as SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 33 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 34 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 31 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 -- -- PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 38 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 42 Wet Wet PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 43 Wild Wild PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 44 Woods Woods PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 39 obl _ _ 45 by by ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 46 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 nmod:poss _ _ 47 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 lones lone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the Dog | | | | | wild *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | past | the Horse | | | | | wild *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | past | the Cow | | | | | wild *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | past | the Sheep | | | | | wild *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | past | the Pig | | | | | wild *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **be** | | the Dog *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **walk** | past | animals *= animal* | | | the Wet Wild Woods | | by animals's wild lones | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in woods=Trajectory | 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 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/12/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/12/3/) - ↑ back to [The Cat That Walked By Himself](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/12/)