Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 1: the First Friend and the First Servant, sentence 10

Wild Horse comes for the grass, bends his head for the halter and becomes the First Servant, to carry them from place to place.

Who acts: Wild Horse · What happens: come, bend, become, carry · To what, where: head, First Servant, Cave, place

This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 1: the First Friend and the First Servant» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wild Horse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Horse	amod
2	Horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	nsubj
3	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 grass	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 grass	det
6	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bends	punct
8	bends	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 comes	conj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 head	nmod:poss
10	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bends	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 halter	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 halter	det
13	halter	halter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bends	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 becomes	cc
15	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 comes	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Servant	det
17	First	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 Servant	amod
18	Servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 becomes	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 carry	punct
20	to	to	PART	_	21 carry	mark
21	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 becomes	advcl
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 carry	obj
23	from	from	ADP	_	24 place	case
24	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 carry	obl
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 place	case
26	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 place	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 comes	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	present	Wild Horse			for the grass	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bend	present	Wild Horse not said here	Horse's head		for the halter	vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent head=Material
3	become	present	Wild Horse not said here	the First Servant			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	carry	to-infinitive	Wild Horse not said here	Cave	place and place		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent they=Theme from place=Initial_Location

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.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:books:093-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant.lesson:10.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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