Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 1: the First Friend and the First Servant, sentence 11

Each time the Cat listens, says the animal is foolish, walks home by his wild lone, and tells nobody.

Who acts: Cat, animal · What happens: listen, say, be, walk, tell · To what, where: nobody · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Cat, animal), 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	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 listens	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Cat	det
4	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 listens	nsubj
5	listens	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 listens	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 animal	det
9	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 foolish	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 foolish	cop
11	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 says	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 walks	punct
13	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 listens	conj
14	home	home	ADV	_	13 walks	advmod
15	by	by	ADP	_	18 lone	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 lone	nmod:poss
17	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 lone	amod
18	lone	lone	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 walks	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 tells	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 tells	cc
21	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 listens	conj
22	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	21 tells	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 listens	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	listen	present	the Cat		time		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the Cat not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	the animal			foolish property	tree rules
4	walk	present	the Cat not said here			by Cat's wild lone; home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by lone=Trajectory
5	tell speech: assert	present	the Cat not said here	nobody			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nobody=Recipient

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:11.

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): no change. 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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