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title: And he went back through the Wet Wild Woods, waving his wild tail an… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: And he went back through the Wet Wild Woods, waving his wild tail and walking by his wild lone. Who acts: Horse. 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 57

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And he went back through the Wet Wild Woods, waving his wild tail and walking by his wild lone.

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**Who acts:** Horse · **What happens:** go back, wave, walk · **To what, where:** Wet Woods, wild tail

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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 (Horse), 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:pg2781:12:57
# text = And he went back through the Wet Wild Woods, waving his wild tail and walking by his wild lone.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	Wet	Wet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	Wild	Wild	PROPN	NNP	_	7	flat	_	_
9	Woods	Woods	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	waving	wave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	lone	lone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go back** | past | Horse |  |  | the Wet Woods |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **wave** | gerund | Horse *not said here* | Horse's wild tail |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient |
| 3 | **walk** | gerund | Horse *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by Horse's wild lone | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by lone=Trajectory |

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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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