Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: the bargain, the Bat and the Baby, sentence 10
Only the little upside-down Bat knows where he is and brings him news: there is a new Baby in the Cave, fond of soft, tickly, warm things and of being played with.
Who acts: little down Bat, Bat, new Baby · What happens: know, be, bring, play · To what, where: news, Bat · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (little down Bat, Bat, new Baby), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 7 Bat | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Bat | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Bat | amod |
| 4 | upside | upside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 down | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 down | punct |
| 6 | down | down | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Bat | compound |
| 7 | Bat | bat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 knows | nsubj |
| 8 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 knows | ccomp |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 where | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 where | cop |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 brings | cc |
| 13 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 knows | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 brings | iobj |
| 15 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brings | obj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 is | punct |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 is | expl |
| 18 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 knows | parataxis |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 Baby | det |
| 20 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Baby | amod |
| 21 | Baby | Baby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 is | nsubj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 Cave | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Cave | det |
| 24 | Cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Baby | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 fond | punct |
| 26 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Baby | amod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 things | case |
| 28 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 things | amod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 soft | punct |
| 30 | tickly | tickly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 things | amod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 tickly | punct |
| 32 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 things | amod |
| 33 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 fond | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 played | cc |
| 35 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 37 played | mark |
| 36 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 37 played | aux:pass |
| 37 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 things | conj |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 played | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | the little down Bat | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Bat | where property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bring | present | the little down Bat not said here | news | Bat | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination news=Theme | |||
| 4 | be | present | a new Baby in the Cave | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | play | gerund · passive | a new Baby in the Cave not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V» |
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:10.
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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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