Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: the bargain, the Bat and the Baby, sentence 20
The Woman to the Cat: «I have braided up my hair, and I have put away the magic blade-bone, and we have no more need of either friends or servants in our Cave.»
Who acts: Woman, we · What happens: braid up, put away, have, need · To what, where: hair, magic blade bone, more need, friends
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, we), 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 braided | parataxis |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Cat | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Cat | det |
| 5 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Woman | nmod |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 braided | punct |
| 7 | « | « | SCONJ | _ | 10 braided | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 braided | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 braided | aux |
| 10 | braided | braid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 braided | compound:prt |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hair | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 braided | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 put | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 put | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 put | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 put | aux |
| 18 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 braided | conj |
| 19 | away | away | ADP | _ | 18 put | compound:prt |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 bone | det |
| 21 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 bone | amod |
| 22 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bone | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 blade | punct |
| 24 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 put | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 have | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 have | cc |
| 27 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 have | nsubj |
| 28 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 braided | conj |
| 29 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 31 need | det |
| 30 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 31 need | amod |
| 31 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 have | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 friends | case |
| 33 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 34 friends | cc:preconj |
| 34 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 need | nmod |
| 35 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 36 servants | cc |
| 36 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 friends | conj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 Cave | case |
| 38 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 Cave | nmod:poss |
| 39 | Cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 friends | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 braided | punct |
| 41 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 braided | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert, voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | braid up in a quote | present · perfect | the Woman and puff = woman | my hair | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | put away in a quote | present · perfect | the Woman and puff = woman | the magic blade bone | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent bone=Goal | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | we | no more need of friends in our Cave or servants | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Patient | ||||
| 4 | need in a quote | friends in our Cave or servants | nom need «state transitive»: of=patient |
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:20.
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): 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.
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