Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: the bargain, the Bat and the Baby, sentence 30
The Woman is very angry; she shuts her lips tight, takes up her spinning and says nothing.
Who acts: Woman · What happens: be, shut, take up, say, spin · To what, where: lips, spinning, nothing · 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), 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 angry | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 angry | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 angry | advmod |
| 5 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 shuts | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 shuts | nsubj |
| 8 | shuts | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 angry | parataxis |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 lips | nmod:poss |
| 10 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 shuts | obj |
| 11 | tight | tight | ADV | _ | 8 shuts | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 takes | punct |
| 13 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 shuts | conj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 takes | compound:prt |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 spinning | nmod:poss |
| 16 | spinning | spinning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 takes | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 says | cc |
| 18 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 shuts | conj |
| 19 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 18 says | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the Woman | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shut | present | Woman | Woman's lips | tight property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent lip=Patient | |||
| 3 | take up | present | Woman not said here | Woman's spinning | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spinning=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | Woman not said here | nothing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | ||||
| 5 | spin | Woman | nom spinning «act transitive»: poss=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:30.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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