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title: The Woman said, ‘Wild Thing out of the Wild Woods, bend your wild he… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: The Woman said, ‘Wild Thing out of the Wild Woods, bend your wild head and wear what I give you, and you shall eat the wonderful grass three times a day.’ Who acts: Woman, I, you. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Cat That Walked By Himself, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 53

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The Woman said, ‘Wild Thing out of the Wild Woods, bend your wild head and wear what I give you, and you shall eat the wonderful grass three times a day.’

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**Who acts:** Woman, I, you · **What happens:** say, bend, wear, give, eat · **To what, where:** wild head, you, wonderful grass · **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 (Woman, I, you), 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:pg2781:12:53
# text = The Woman said, ‘Wild Thing out of the Wild Woods, bend your wild head and wear what I give you, and you shall eat the wonderful grass three times a day.’
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Wild	Wild	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Woods	Woods	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	bend	bend	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	wear	wear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
20	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	obj	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl:unmarked	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bend** | infinitive |  | your wild head |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent head=Material |
| 3 | **wear** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | present | I |  | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 5 | **eat** | shall | you | the wonderful grass |  |  | time |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient |

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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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