--- title: Next night the Woman cut great green armfuls of fresh grass from the… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: Next night the Woman cut great green armfuls of fresh grass from the water-meadows, and dried it before the fire, so that it smelt like new-mown hay, and she sat at the mouth of the Cave and plaited a halter out of horse-hide, and she looked at the shoulder of mutton-bone--at the big broad blade-bon --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/12/40/) [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/) / 40 # Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 40 Next night the Woman cut great green armfuls of fresh grass from the water-meadows, and dried it before the fire, so that it smelt like new-mown hay, and she sat at the mouth of the Cave and plaited a halter out of horse-hide, and she looked at the shoulder of mutton-bone--at the big broad blade-bone--and she made a Magic. **Who acts:** Woman, grass · **What happens:** cut, dry, smelt, sit, plait, look · **To what, where:** great green armfuls, water meadows, grass, mouth, halter, horse hide 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, grass), 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:pg2781:12:40 # text = Next night the Woman cut great green armfuls of fresh grass from the water-meadows, and dried it before the fire, so that it smelt like new-mown hay, and she sat at the mouth of the Cave and plaited a halter out of horse-hide, and she looked at the shoulder of mutton-bone--at the big broad blade-bone--and she made a Magic. 1 Next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 cut cut VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 armfuls armful NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 from from ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 14 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 meadows meadow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 dried dry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 before before ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 28 mark _ _ 26 that that SCONJ IN _ 25 fixed _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 smelt smelt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 29 like like ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 30 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 - - PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 mown mown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 hay hay NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 38 at at ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 Cave cave NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 plaited plait VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 conj _ _ 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 halter halter NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ _ 48 out out ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 49 of of ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 50 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 51 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 50 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 52 hide hide NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 54 and and CCONJ CC _ 56 cc _ _ 55 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 56 nsubj _ _ 56 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 57 at at ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 58 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 59 det _ _ 59 shoulder shoulder NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 obl _ _ 60 of of ADP IN _ 63 case _ _ 61 mutton mutton NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 62 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 61 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 63 bone bone NOUN NN Number=Sing 59 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 64 -- -- PUNCT , _ 71 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 65 at at ADP IN _ 71 case _ _ 66 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 71 det _ _ 67 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 71 amod _ _ 68 broad broad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 71 amod _ _ 69 blade blade NOUN NN Number=Sing 71 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 70 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 69 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 71 bone bone NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 72 -- -- PUNCT , _ 75 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 73 and and CCONJ CC _ 75 cc _ _ 74 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 75 nsubj _ _ 75 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 76 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 77 det _ _ 77 Magic Magic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 75 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 78 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cut** | past | the Woman | great green armfuls of fresh grass | | the water meadows | night | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent armful=Product from meadow=Material | | 2 | **dry** | past | the Woman *not said here* | grass | | | before the fire | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result | | 3 | **smelt** | present | grass | | | | | like new mown hay | tree rules | | 4 | **sit** | past | Woman | | | the mouth of the Cave | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at mouth=Location | | 5 | **plait** | past | Woman *not said here* | a halter | | horse hide | | | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent halter=Patient | | 6 | **look** | past | Woman | | | | | at the shoulder of mutton bone | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at shoulder=Theme | | 7 | **make** | past | Woman | a Magic | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magic=Product | 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 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/12/39/) - next →: [sentence 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/12/41/) - ↑ back to [The Cat That Walked By Himself](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/12/)