Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: the bargain, the Bat and the Baby, sentence 13
The Cat pats his cheek and tickles him with his tail, and the Baby laughs.
Who acts: Cat, Baby · What happens: pat, tickle, laugh · To what, where: cheek, Cat
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 (Cat, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Cat | det |
| 2 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pats | nsubj |
| 3 | pats | pat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 cheek | nmod:poss |
| 5 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pats | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tickles | cc |
| 7 | tickles | tickle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 pats | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 tickles | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 tail | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 tail | nmod:poss |
| 11 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tickles | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 laughs | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 laughs | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Baby | det |
| 15 | Baby | Baby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 laughs | nsubj |
| 16 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 pats | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pats | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pat | present | the Cat | Cat's cheek | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheek=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | tickle | present | the Cat not said here | Cat | with Cat's tail | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Experiencer with tail=Instrument | |||
| 3 | laugh | present | the Baby | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:13.
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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