Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 1: the First Friend and the First Servant, sentence 23

The Cat each time: «This is a very wise Woman, but she is not so wise as I am» and «That is a very foolish Dog» (or Horse).

Who acts: This, Woman, That · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: wise Woman, foolish Dog

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 (This, Woman, That), 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 Cat	det
2	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Cat	nmod:unmarked
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 Woman	punct
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 Woman	punct
7	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 Woman	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 Woman	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 Woman	det
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 wise	advmod
11	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Woman	amod
12	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Cat	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wise	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 wise	cc
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 wise	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 wise	cop
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 wise	advmod
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 wise	advmod
19	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Woman	conj
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 am	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 am	nsubj
22	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 wise	advcl
23	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 Woman	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 Dog	cc
25	«	«	PUNCT	_	31 Dog	punct
26	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 Dog	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 Dog	cop
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 Dog	det
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 foolish	advmod
30	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 Dog	amod
31	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Woman	conj
32	»	»	PUNCT	_	31 Dog	punct
33	(	(	PUNCT	_	35 Horse	punct
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 Horse	cc
35	Horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 Dog	conj
36	)	)	PUNCT	_	35 Horse	punct
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Cat	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	This	a wise Woman and a foolish Dog or Horse		tree rules
2	not is in a quote	present	Woman		wise property	tree rules
3	is a in a quote	present	That	a foolish Dog or Horse		tree rules

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:23.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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