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 12

And so, says Kipling, cats catch mice and are kind to babies, but at night they go out to the Wet Wild Woods and the Wet Wild Roofs, waving their wild tails and walking by their wild lones.

Who acts: Kipling, cats, Man · What happens: say, catch, be, go out, wave, walk · To what, where: mice, wild tails · 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 (Kipling, cats, Man), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 says	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	4 says	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 catch	parataxis
5	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 catch	punct
7	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 catch	nsubj
8	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 catch	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 kind	cc
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 kind	cop
12	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 catch	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 babies	case
14	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 kind	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 go	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 go	cc
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 night	case
18	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 go	obl
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 go	nsubj
20	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 catch	conj
21	out	out	ADV	_	20 go	advmod
22	to	to	ADP	_	26 Woods	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Woods	det
24	Wet	Wet	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Woods	compound
25	Wild	Wild	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Woods	compound
26	Woods	Woods	PROPN	Number=Plur	21 out	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 Roofs	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Roofs	det
29	Wet	Wet	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Wild	compound
30	Wild	Wild	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Roofs	compound
31	Roofs	roof	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 Woods	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 waving	punct
33	waving	wave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 go	advcl
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 tails	nmod:poss
35	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 tails	amod
36	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 waving	obj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 walking	cc
38	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 waving	conj
39	by	by	ADP	_	42 lones	case
40	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 lones	nmod:poss
41	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 lones	amod
42	lones	lone	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 walking	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 catch	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Kipling				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	catch	present	cats	mice			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme
3	is	present	cats not said here			to babies; kind property	tree rules
4	go out	present	Man		night	out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	wave	gerund	Man not said here	Man's wild tails			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
6	walk	gerund	Man not said here			by Man's wild lones	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by lone=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:12.

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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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