Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: the bargain, the Bat and the Baby, sentence 26

He is new and pink and fat and small, and the Woman is very fond of him.» The Cat asks: «but what is the Baby fond of?»

Who acts: Baby, Woman, Cat · What happens: be, ask · 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 (Baby, Woman, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 new	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 new	cop
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 pink	cc
5	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 new	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fat	cc
7	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 new	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 small	cc
9	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 new	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fond	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 fond	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Woman	det
13	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fond	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 fond	cop
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 fond	advmod
16	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 new	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fond	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 fond	punct
20	»	»	SCONJ	_	23 asks	mark
21	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Cat	det
22	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 asks	nsubj
23	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 new	conj
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 asks	punct
25	«	«	PUNCT	_	31 fond	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 fond	cc
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	31 fond	obl
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 fond	cop
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Baby	det
30	Baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fond	nsubj
31	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 asks	ccomp
32	of	of	ADP	_	31 fond	case
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 new	punct
34	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 new	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	Baby	new property	tree rules
2	be		Baby not said here		tree rules
3	be		Baby not said here		tree rules
4	be		Baby not said here		tree rules
5	is	present	the Woman	of Baby; fond property	tree rules
6	ask speech: ask in a quote	present	the Cat		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	present	the Baby	fond 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:26.

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 ×4, R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-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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