Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 3: the third word, the Man, the Dog, and how cats really came to live with us, sentence 10
The Cat agrees, as long as the Baby does not pull his tail too hard, but again says he walks by himself, so the Dog will chase him up a tree.
Who acts: Cat, Baby, Dog · What happens: agree, not pull, say, walk, chase up · To what, where: tail, Baby · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 3: the third word, the Man, the Dog, and how cats really came to live with us» 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, Baby, Dog), 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 agrees | nsubj |
| 3 | agrees | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pull | punct |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 long | advmod |
| 6 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 pull | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 pull | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Baby | det |
| 9 | Baby | Baby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 pull | nsubj |
| 10 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 pull | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 pull | advmod |
| 12 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 agrees | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 tail | nmod:poss |
| 14 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pull | obj |
| 15 | too | too | ADV | _ | 16 hard | advmod |
| 16 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 pull | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 says | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 says | cc |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 20 says | advmod |
| 20 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 agrees | conj |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 walks | nsubj |
| 22 | walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 says | ccomp |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 himself | case |
| 24 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 walks | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 chase | punct |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 chase | advmod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Dog | det |
| 28 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 chase | nsubj |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 chase | aux |
| 30 | chase | chase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 walks | conj |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 chase | obj |
| 32 | up | up | ADP | _ | 30 chase | compound:prt |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 tree | det |
| 34 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 chase | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 agrees | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | present | the Cat | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not pull | present · do-support | the Baby | Baby's tail | hard, long property | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | the Cat not said here | again | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | walk | present | Baby | by Baby | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by himself=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | chase up | future | the Dog | Baby | 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:095-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself.lesson:10.
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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