Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 1: the First Friend and the First Servant, sentence 5
The Woman throws Wild Dog a roast bone, and he wants more.
Who acts: Woman, Cat · What happens: throw, want · To what, where: roast bone, Wild Dog, more
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, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Woman | det |
| 2 | Woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 throws | nsubj |
| 3 | throws | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Wild | Wild | PROPN | _ | 5 Dog | flat |
| 5 | Dog | Dog | PROPN | _ | 3 throws | iobj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bone | det |
| 7 | roast | roast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bone | compound |
| 8 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 throws | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wants | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wants | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 wants | nsubj |
| 12 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 throws | conj |
| 13 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 wants | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 throws | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | present | the Woman | a roast bone | Wild Dog | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent dog=Destination bone=Theme | |||
| 2 | want | present | Cat | more | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot more=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:5.
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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