Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: the bargain, the Bat and the Baby, sentence 0
Wild Cow comes next and promises her milk every day for the wonderful grass; she becomes the Giver of Good Food.
Who acts: Wild Cow, Cow · What happens: come, promise, become · To what, where: milk, Giver
This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: the bargain, the Bat and the Baby» 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 Cow, Cow), 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 | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Cow | amod |
| 2 | Cow | cow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 comes | nsubj |
| 3 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | next | next | ADV | _ | 3 comes | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 promises | cc |
| 6 | promises | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 comes | conj |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 milk | nmod:poss |
| 8 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 promises | obj |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 day | det |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 promises | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 grass | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 grass | det |
| 13 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 grass | amod |
| 14 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 promises | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 becomes | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 becomes | nsubj |
| 17 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 comes | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Giver | det |
| 19 | Giver | giver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 becomes | xcomp |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Food | case |
| 21 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Food | amod |
| 22 | Food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Giver | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | Wild Cow | next property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | present | Wild Cow not said here | Cow's milk | day | for the wonderful grass goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent milk=Theme for grass=Goal | ||
| 3 | become | present | Cow | the Giver of Good Food | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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:094-justso-cat-2-a-bargain-and-a-baby.lesson:0.
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, 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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