Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: the bargain, the Bat and the Baby, sentence 21
The Cat «pretended to be sorry» and said «You are very wise and very beautiful.
Who acts: Cat, You · What happens: pretend, be, say · 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 (Cat, You), 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 | 4 pretended | nsubj |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 pretended | punct |
| 4 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 sorry | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 sorry | cop |
| 7 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pretended | xcomp |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 pretended | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pretended | conj |
| 11 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 15 wise | punct |
| 12 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 wise | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 wise | cop |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 wise | advmod |
| 15 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | ccomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 beautiful | cc |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 beautiful | advmod |
| 18 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 wise | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pretended | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend in a quote | past | the Cat | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | to-infinitive | the Cat not said here | sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Cat not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | You | wise property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be in a quote | You not said here | 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:21.
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): R1-cc-next ×2, R6-punct-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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