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title: And he went away through the Wet Wild Woods waving his wild tail and… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: And he went away through the Wet Wild Woods waving his wild tail and walking by his wild lone. Who acts: Cat. 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 90

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

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**Who acts:** Cat · **What happens:** go away, wave, walk · **To what, where:** Wet Wild 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 (Cat), 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:pg2781:12:90
# text = And he went away 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	away	away	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	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Woods	Woods	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
10	waving	wave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	lone	lone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go away** | past | Cat |  |  | the Wet Wild Woods |  | away *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through woods=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **wave** | gerund | Cat *not said here* | Cat's wild tail |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient |
| 3 | **walk** | gerund | Cat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by Cat'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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