Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: the bargain, the Bat and the Baby, sentence 8
The Cat asks the curtain, the fire and the milk-pots to remember.
Who acts: Cat · What happens: ask, remember · To what, where: curtain
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), 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 asks | nsubj |
| 3 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 curtain | det |
| 5 | curtain | curtain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asks | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fire | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fire | det |
| 8 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 curtain | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 pots | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pots | det |
| 11 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pots | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 milk | punct |
| 13 | pots | pot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 curtain | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 remember | mark |
| 15 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 pots | acl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | the Cat | the curtain and the fire and the milk pots | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent curtain=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | remember | to-infinitive | the Cat not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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:8.
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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