Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 1: the First Friend and the First Servant, sentence 14

The Woman «picked out a nice dry Cave, instead of a heap of wet leaves», strewed clean sand, lit a fire and hung «a dried wild-horse skin, tail-down», saying «Wipe you feet, dear, when you come in, and now we'll keep house.»

Who acts: Woman, you, we · What happens: pick out, strew, lit, hang, dry, say · To what, where: nice dry Cave, clean sand, fire, dried horse skin, feet, house · 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 (Woman, you, we), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Woman	det
2	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 picked	nsubj
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 picked	punct
4	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 picked	compound:prt
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 Cave	det
7	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Cave	amod
8	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Cave	amod
9	Cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 picked	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 heap	punct
11	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	14 heap	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	11 instead	fixed
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 heap	det
14	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 picked	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 leaves	case
16	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 leaves	amod
17	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 heap	nmod
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 heap	punct
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 strewed	punct
20	strewed	strew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 picked	conj
21	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 sand	amod
22	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 strewed	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 lit	punct
24	lit	lit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 picked	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 fire	det
26	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lit	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 hung	cc
28	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 picked	conj
29	«	«	PUNCT	_	35 skin	punct
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 skin	det
31	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 skin	amod
32	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 horse	amod
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 wild	punct
34	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 skin	compound
35	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hung	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 down	punct
37	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 down	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 tail	punct
39	down	down	ADV	_	35 skin	advmod
40	»	»	PUNCT	_	35 skin	punct
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 saying	punct
42	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 hung	advcl
43	«	«	PUNCT	_	44 Wipe	punct
44	Wipe	wipe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 saying	ccomp
45	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	46 feet	nmod:poss
46	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 Wipe	obj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 dear	punct
48	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 Wipe	vocative
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 come	punct
50	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	52 come	advmod
51	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	52 come	nsubj
52	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 Wipe	advcl
53	in	in	ADV	_	52 come	advmod
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 keep	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 keep	cc
56	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	59 keep	advmod
57	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	59 keep	nsubj
58	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	59 keep	aux
59	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 come	conj
60	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 keep	obj
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 picked	punct
62	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 picked	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: character
polarity: pos
teacher: changed act=narrate

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pick out in a quote	past	the Woman	a nice dry Cave		instead a heap of wet leaves	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cave=Patient
2	strew	past	the Woman not said here	clean sand			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sand=Theme
3	lit	past	the Woman not said here	a fire			tree rules
4	hang	past	the Woman not said here	a dried horse skin			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient
5	dry in a quote	participle					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	say speech: assert	gerund	the Woman not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	wipe in a quote	infinitive		you's feet		dear vocative	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent foot=Source
8	come in in a quote	present	you				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	keep in a quote	future	we	house	now		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme

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:14.

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): R5-strong ×4, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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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