Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: the bargain, the Bat and the Baby, sentence 27

That busy morning the Woman carried the crying Baby outside and gave him a handful of pebbles to play with, but he went on crying.

Who acts: Woman, Baby · What happens: carry, cry, give, play, go on · To what, where: crying Baby, handful, Baby

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, Baby), 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 morning	det
2	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 morning	amod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carried	obl:unmarked
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Woman	det
5	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carried	nsubj
6	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Baby	det
8	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 Baby	amod
9	Baby	Baby	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 carried	obj
10	outside	outside	ADV	_	6 carried	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 gave	cc
12	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 carried	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 gave	iobj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 handful	det
15	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gave	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 pebbles	case
17	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 handful	nmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 play	mark
19	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 gave	advcl
20	with	with	ADP	_	19 play	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 went	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 went	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 went	nsubj
24	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 carried	conj
25	on	on	ADP	_	24 went	compound:prt
26	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 went	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 carried	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	the Woman	the crying Baby		morning	outside property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme
2	cry speech: express	gerund						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	give	past	the Woman not said here	a handful of pebbles	Baby			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient handful=Theme
4	play	to-infinitive	the Woman not said here					vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	go on	past	Baby					vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	cry speech: express	gerund	Baby not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:27.

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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