Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: the bargain, the Bat and the Baby, sentence 16

«That was wonderfully done,» says the Woman; puff, the smoke comes down, and the Cat is sitting by the fire.

Who acts: Woman, smoke, Cat · What happens: do, say, come down, sit · To what, where: That · 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, smoke, 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 done	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 done	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 done	aux:pass
4	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	_	5 done	advmod
5	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 says	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 done	punct
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 done	punct
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Woman	det
10	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	nsubj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 puff	punct
12	puff	puff	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Woman	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 comes	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 smoke	det
15	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 comes	nsubj
16	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 says	ccomp
17	down	down	ADV	_	16 comes	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sitting	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 sitting	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Cat	det
21	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sitting	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 sitting	aux
23	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 comes	conj
24	by	by	ADP	_	26 fire	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 fire	det
26	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sitting	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 says	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=narrate

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	past · passive		That	wonderfully property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present	the Woman and puff			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come down	present	the smoke		down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sit	present · progressive	the Cat		by the fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location

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:16.

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 ×3. 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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