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description: ‘I never shall,’ said the Woman, ‘but if I say three words in your praise, you may drink the warm white milk three times a day for always and always and always.’ Who acts: Woman, I, you, your. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Cat That Walked By Himself, with its dependency tre
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# Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 88

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‘I never shall,’ said the Woman, ‘but if I say three words in your praise, you may drink the warm white milk three times a day for always and always and always.’

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**Who acts:** Woman, I, you, your · **What happens:** say, drink, praise · **To what, where:** three words, praise, warm white milk · **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, your), 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:pg2781:12:88
# text = ‘I never shall,’ said the Woman, ‘but if I say three words in your praise, you may drink the warm white milk three times a day for always and always and always.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
11	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
16	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	praise	praise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
29	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod:unmarked	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	24	obl	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	34	conj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	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 | **say** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I | three words |  | your praise |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent word=Theme in praise=Manner |
| 3 | **drink** | may | you | the warm white milk |  |  | time |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient |
| 4 | **praise** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom praise «communication transitive»: poss=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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