Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: the bargain, the Bat and the Baby, sentence 22

You should not be cruel even to a Cat.» The Woman: «I knew I was wise, but I did not know I was beautiful.»

Who acts: You, I · What happens: not be, know, be, not know · 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 (You, I), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 cruel	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 cruel	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 cruel	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 cruel	cop
5	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	even	even	ADV	_	9 Cat	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 Cat	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 Cat	det
9	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cruel	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cruel	punct
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 cruel	punct
12	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Woman	det
13	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cruel	dep
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 knew	punct
15	«	«	PUNCT	_	17 knew	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 knew	nsubj
17	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cruel	parataxis
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 wise	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 wise	cop
20	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 knew	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 know	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 know	cc
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 know	nsubj
24	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 know	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 know	advmod
26	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 knew	conj
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 beautiful	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 beautiful	cop
29	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 know	ccomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cruel	punct
31	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 cruel	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: evaluate
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: changed polarity=pos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not is	should	You	to a Cat; cruel property	tree rules
2	know	past	I		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	I	wise property	tree rules
4	not know	past · do-support	I		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	past	I	beautiful 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:22.

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): 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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