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 11
The Man throws his boots and axe, and the Dog chases the Cat up a tree.
Who acts: Man, Dog · What happens: throw, chase · To what, where: boots, Cat, tree
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 (Man, 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 Man | det |
| 2 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 throws | nsubj |
| 3 | throws | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 boots | nmod:poss |
| 5 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 throws | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 axe | cc |
| 7 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 boots | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 chases | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 chases | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Dog | det |
| 11 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 chases | nsubj |
| 12 | chases | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 throws | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Cat | det |
| 14 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 chases | obj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 tree | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 tree | det |
| 17 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 chases | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 throws | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | present | the Man | Baby's boots and axe | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boot=Theme | ||||
| 2 | chase | present | the Dog | the Cat | a tree | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cat=Theme up tree=Trajectory |
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:11.
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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