--- title: The Woman laughed and said, ‘Wild Thing out of the Wild Woods, go ba… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: The Woman laughed and said, ‘Wild Thing out of the Wild Woods, go back to the Woods again, for I have braided up my hair, and I have put away the magic blade-bone, and we have no more need of either friends or servants in our Cave. Who acts: Woman, I, we. 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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, we), 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:pg2781:12:68 # text = The Woman laughed and said, ‘Wild Thing out of the Wild Woods, go back to the Woods again, for I have braided up my hair, and I have put away the magic blade-bone, and we have no more need of either friends or servants in our Cave. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 Wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 Thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 ccomp _ _ 10 out out ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 Wild Wild PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 Woods Woods PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 17 back back ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 Woods wood NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 21 again again ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 for for SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 braided braid VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 27 up up ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 28 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 35 away away ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 37 magic magic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 38 blade blade NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 39 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 bone bone NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 43 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 44 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 45 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 47 det _ _ 46 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 47 amod _ _ 47 need need NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ _ 48 of of ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 either either CCONJ CC _ 50 cc:preconj _ _ 50 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 nmod _ _ 51 or or CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 52 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 50 conj _ _ 53 in in ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 54 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 55 nmod:poss _ _ 55 Cave cave NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 56 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **laugh** | past | the Woman | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Woman *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **go back** | infinitive | | | | | again | to the Woods *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to wood=Result | | 4 | **braid up** | present · perfect | I | my hair | | | | | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient | | 5 | **put away** | present · perfect | I | the magic blade bone | | | | away *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent bone=Goal | | 6 | **have** | present | we | no more need of friends in our Cave or servants | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Patient | | 7 | **need** | | | friends in our Cave or servants | | | | | nom need «state transitive»: of=patient | 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 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/12/67/) - next →: [sentence 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/12/69/) - ↑ back to [The Cat That Walked By Himself](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/12/)