Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: the bargain, the Bat and the Baby, sentence 5
The Cat flatters her: she is wise and beautiful and should not be cruel.
Who acts: Cat, Woman · What happens: flatter, be, not be · To what, where: Woman
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 (Cat, 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 Cat | det |
| 2 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flatters | nsubj |
| 3 | flatters | flatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 flatters | obj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 wise | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 wise | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 wise | cop |
| 8 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 flatters | parataxis |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 beautiful | cc |
| 10 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wise | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 cruel | cc |
| 12 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 cruel | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 cruel | advmod |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 cruel | cop |
| 15 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wise | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flatters | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed polarity=pos
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flatter | present | the Cat | Woman | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus her=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Woman | wise property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | Woman not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | not is | should | Woman not said here | cruel 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:5.
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): no change. 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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