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title: And Wild Horse, tripping and stumbling on his long mane, said, ‘That… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: And Wild Horse, tripping and stumbling on his long mane, said, ‘That is true; give it me to eat.’ Who acts: Wild Horse, That. 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 52

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And Wild Horse, tripping and stumbling on his long mane, said, ‘That is true; give it me to eat.’

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**Who acts:** Wild Horse, That · **What happens:** trip, stumble, say, be, give, eat · **To what, where:** long mane, mane, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Wild Horse, That), 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:pg2781:12:52
# text = And Wild Horse, tripping and stumbling on his long mane, said, ‘That is true; give it me to eat.’
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	Wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	tripping	trip	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	ccomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	stumbling	stumble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	mane	mane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
20	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	parataxis	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	iobj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trip** | gerund | Wild Horse |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stumble** | gerund | Wild Horse *not said here* |  |  | Horse's long mane |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on mane=Trajectory |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **is** | present | That |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **give** | infinitive |  | mane | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient it=Theme |
| 6 | **eat** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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