--- title: Out in the Wild Woods all the wild animals wondered what had happene… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: Out in the Wild Woods all the wild animals wondered what had happened to Wild Dog, and at last Wild Horse stamped with his foot and said, ‘I will go and see and say why Wild Dog has not returned. Who acts: wild animals, I, Wild Dog. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Cat That Wa --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/12/42/) [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/) / 42 # Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 42 Out in the Wild Woods all the wild animals wondered what had happened to Wild Dog, and at last Wild Horse stamped with his foot and said, ‘I will go and see and say why Wild Dog has not returned. **Who acts:** wild animals, I, Wild Dog · **What happens:** wonder, happen, stamp, say, go, see · **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 (wild animals, I, Wild Dog), 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:pg2781:12:42 # text = Out in the Wild Woods all the wild animals wondered what had happened to Wild Dog, and at last Wild Horse stamped with his foot and said, ‘I will go and see and say why Wild Dog has not returned. 1 Out out ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 Wild Wild PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 Woods Woods PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ 6 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 9 det:predet _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 wondered wonder VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 13 nsubj _ _ 12 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 happened happen VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 ccomp _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 Wild Wild PROPN NNP _ 16 flat _ _ 16 Dog Dog PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl:agent _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 19 at at ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 21 Wild Wild PROPN NNP _ 22 flat _ _ 22 Horse Horse PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 23 stamped stamp VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 ccomp _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 conj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 conj _ _ 38 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 43 advmod _ _ 39 Wild Wild PROPN NNP _ 40 flat _ _ 40 Dog Dog PROPN NNP _ 43 nsubj _ _ 41 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 42 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 43 advmod _ _ 43 returned return VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | past | all wild animals | | | | | out *property* | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **happen** | past · perfect | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **stamp** | past | | | | | | at last Wild Horse; with Dog's foot | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with foot=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **go** | future | I | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **see** | infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **not** **return** | present · perfect | Wild Dog | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/12/41/) - next →: [sentence 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/12/43/) - ↑ back to [The Cat That Walked By Himself](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/12/)