Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: the bargain, the Bat and the Baby, sentence 15

Then she lets him play a string game with the spindle-whorl until the Baby laughs and falls asleep, and the Cat purrs him a sleep-song.

Who acts: Woman, Cat, Baby · What happens: let, play, laugh, fall, purr · To what, where: Cat, string game, sleep song, Baby

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, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 lets	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lets	nsubj
3	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lets	obj
5	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lets	xcomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 game	det
7	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 game	compound
8	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 play	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	13 whorl	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 whorl	det
11	spindle	spindle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 whorl	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 spindle	punct
13	whorl	whorl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 play	obl
14	until	until	SCONJ	_	17 laughs	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Baby	det
16	Baby	Baby	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 laughs	nsubj
17	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 play	advcl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 falls	cc
19	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 laughs	conj
20	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 falls	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 purrs	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 purrs	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Cat	det
24	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 purrs	nsubj
25	purrs	purr	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lets	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 purrs	iobj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 song	det
28	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 song	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 sleep	punct
30	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 purrs	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lets	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	let	present	Woman	Cat		then		tree rules
2	play	infinitive	Cat not said here	a string game			with the spindle whorl	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent game=Theme with whorl=Co-Agent
3	laugh	present	the Baby					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	fall	present	the Baby not said here				asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	purr	present	the Cat	a sleep song	Baby			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:15.

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, R7-rel-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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