Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 1: the First Friend and the First Servant, sentence 12

«He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him» is said of the Cat again and again, like a chorus.

Who acts: Cat, places · What happens: walk, be, say · To what, where: Cat · 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, places), 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 walked	nsubj
3	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 said	ccomp
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 himself	case
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 walked	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 alike	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 alike	cc
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 places	det
9	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 alike	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 alike	cop
11	alike	alike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 walked	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 alike	obl
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 said	aux:pass
16	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 Cat	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Cat	det
19	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	obl
20	again	again	ADV	_	16 said	advmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 again	cc
22	again	again	ADV	_	20 again	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 chorus	punct
24	like	like	ADP	_	26 chorus	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 chorus	det
26	chorus	chorus	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	walk in a quote	past	Cat			by Cat	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by himself=Trajectory
2	is in a quote	past	all places	Cat		alike property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	present · passive			again	of the Cat; like a chorus	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: clause=Topic

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:12.

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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