Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: the bargain, the Bat and the Baby, sentence 14

The Woman, not seeing who it is, says «A blessing on that Wild Thing», and whoosh, the horse-skin curtain falls: the Cat is inside.

Who acts: Woman, cheek, skin curtain, Cat · What happens: not see, be, say, whoosh, fall · To what, where: Woman · 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 (Woman, cheek, skin curtain, 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	10 says	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 seeing	punct
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 seeing	advmod
5	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 Woman	acl
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 seeing	ccomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 who	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 who	cop
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 is	punct
10	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	«	«	ADP	_	13 blessing	case
12	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 blessing	det
13	blessing	blessing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 says	obl
14	on	on	ADP	_	18 »	case
15	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 Thing	det
16	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Thing	amod
17	Thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 blessing	nmod
18	»	»	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 blessing	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 whoosh	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 whoosh	cc
21	whoosh	whoosh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 says	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 falls	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 curtain	det
24	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 skin	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 horse	punct
26	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 curtain	compound
27	curtain	curtain	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 falls	nsubj
28	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 says	conj
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 inside	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Cat	det
31	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 inside	nsubj
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 inside	cop
33	inside	inside	ADV	_	28 falls	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not see	gerund	the Woman not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	present	cheek	the Woman		tree rules
3	say speech: assert	present	the Woman		« a blessing that Wild Thing on »	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	whoosh	present	the Woman not said here			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	fall	present	the skin curtain			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is	present	the Cat		inside property	tree rules

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:14.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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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