--- title: Wild Dog crawled into the Cave and laid his head on the Woman’s lap,… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: Wild Dog crawled into the Cave and laid his head on the Woman’s lap, and said, ‘O my Friend and Wife of my Friend, I will help Your Man to hunt through the day, and at night I will guard your Cave.’ Who acts: Wild Dog, I, Man. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wild Dog, I, Man), 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:pg2781:12:32 # text = Wild Dog crawled into the Cave and laid his head on the Woman’s lap, and said, ‘O my Friend and Wife of my Friend, I will help Your Man to hunt through the day, and at night I will guard your Cave.’ 1 Wild Wild PROPN NNP _ 2 flat _ _ 2 Dog Dog PROPN NNP _ 3 nsubj _ _ 3 crawled crawl VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 into into ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Cave cave NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ’s 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 lap lap NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 O o INTJ UH _ 23 discourse _ _ 22 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 Friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 ccomp _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 Wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 Friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 ccomp _ _ 33 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 Man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 hunt hunt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 37 through through ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 42 at at ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl _ _ 44 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 45 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 46 guard guard VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 47 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 nmod:poss _ _ 48 Cave cave NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 46 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **crawl** | past | Wild Dog | | | the Cave | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into cave=Destination | | 2 | **lay** | past | Wild Dog *not said here* | Dog's head | | the Woman's lap | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme on lap=Destination | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **help** | future | I | Your Man | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent man=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 5 | **hunt** | to-infinitive | Your Man *not said here* | | | | day | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **guard** | future | I | your Cave | | | night | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cave=Beneficiary | 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 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/12/31/) - next →: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/12/33/) - ↑ back to [The Cat That Walked By Himself](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/12/)