Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 1: the First Friend and the First Servant, sentence 4

Wild Dog smells roast mutton and goes to look; the Cat says «Nenni!», he will not come, but he follows secretly and hides where he can hear everything.

Who acts: Wild Dog, Cat · What happens: smell, go, look, say, not come, follow · To what, where: roast mutton, Nenni, everything · 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 (Wild Dog, Cat), 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	PROPN	_	2 Dog	compound
2	Dog	Dog	PROPN	_	3 smells	nsubj
3	smells	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	roast	roast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mutton	amod
5	mutton	mutton	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 smells	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 goes	cc
7	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 smells	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 look	mark
9	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 goes	advcl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 says	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Cat	det
12	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 says	nsubj
13	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 smells	parataxis
14	«	«	PUNCT	_	15 Nenni	punct
15	Nenni	Nenni	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 says	obj
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 Nenni	punct
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 Nenni	punct
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Nenni	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 come	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 come	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 come	advmod
22	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 says	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 follows	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 follows	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 follows	nsubj
26	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 come	conj
27	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	26 follows	advmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 hides	cc
29	hides	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 follows	conj
30	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	33 hear	advmod
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 hear	nsubj
32	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 hear	aux
33	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 hides	advcl
34	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	33 hear	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 smells	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	smell	present	Wild Dog	roast mutton		vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mutton=Stimulus
2	go	present	Wild Dog not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	look	to-infinitive	Wild Dog not said here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	present	the Cat	Nenni		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nenni=Topic
5	not come	future	Cat			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	follow	present	Cat		secretly property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	hide	present	Cat not said here			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	hear	can	Cat	everything		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus

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:4.

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 ×2. 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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