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title: Only the Bat--the little upside-down Bat--that hung inside the Cave,… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Only the Bat--the little upside-down Bat--that hung inside the Cave, knew where Cat hid; and every evening Bat would fly to Cat with news of what was happening. Who acts: that, Cat, evening Bat. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Cat That Walked By Himself, with its dependency t
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# Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 93

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Only the Bat--the little upside-down Bat--that hung inside the Cave, knew where Cat hid; and every evening Bat would fly to Cat with news of what was happening.

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**Who acts:** that, Cat, evening Bat · **What happens:** hang, know, hide, fly, cat, happen · **To what, where:** Cave · **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 (that, Cat, evening Bat), 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:pg2781:12:93
# text = Only the Bat--the little upside-down Bat--that hung inside the Cave, knew where Cat hid; and every evening Bat would fly to Cat with news of what was happening.
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Bat	bat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
7	upside	upside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	down	down	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Bat	bat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
14	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	advmod	_	_
20	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
25	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Bat	bat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	Cat	cat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	nmod	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	happening	happen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | past | that |  |  | the Cave |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent inside cave=Location |
| 2 | **know** | past | that *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **hide** | past | Cat |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fly** | would | every evening Bat |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **cat** | to-infinitive | every evening Bat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with news | tree rules |
| 6 | **happen** | past · progressive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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