Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: the bargain, the Bat and the Baby, sentence 24

The Woman does not tell the Man, the Horse and the Dog about the bargain, «because she was afraid that they might not like it».

Who acts: Woman, bargain · What happens: not tell, be, not like · To what, where: Man, Dog · 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, bargain), 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	5 tell	nsubj
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 tell	advmod
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Man	det
7	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Horse	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Horse	det
10	Horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Man	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 Dog	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Dog	det
13	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Man	conj
14	about	about	ADP	_	16 bargain	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bargain	det
16	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 «	punct
18	«	«	PUNCT	_	22 afraid	punct
19	because	because	SCONJ	_	22 afraid	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 afraid	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 afraid	cop
22	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tell	advcl
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 like	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 like	nsubj
25	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 like	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 like	advmod
27	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 afraid	ccomp
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 like	obj
29	»	»	PUNCT	_	27 like	punct
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	present · do-support	the Woman		the Man and the Horse and the Dog	about the bargain	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent man=Recipient about bargain=Topic
2	is in a quote	past	Woman			afraid property	tree rules
3	not like in a quote	might	bargain	Dog			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

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:24.

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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