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 14

The Still Magic is «not a Singing Magic»; the Cave grows so still that «a little wee-wee mouse crept out of a corner».

Who acts: Still Magic, Cave, little wee mouse · What happens: sing, not be, grow, creep out · To what, where: Singing Magic, corner · 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 (Still Magic, Cave, little wee mouse), 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	3 Magic	det
2	Still	Still	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Magic	compound
3	Magic	Magic	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Magic	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 Magic	cop
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 Magic	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 Magic	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 Magic	det
8	Singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 Magic	amod
9	Magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 Magic	punct
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 grows	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Cave	det
13	Cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 grows	nsubj
14	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 Magic	parataxis
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 still	advmod
16	still	still	ADV	_	14 grows	advmod
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 crept	mark
18	«	«	PUNCT	_	25 crept	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 mouse	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 mouse	amod
21	wee	wee	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 wee	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 wee	punct
23	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 mouse	amod
24	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 crept	nsubj
25	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 grows	advcl
26	out	out	ADP	_	29 corner	case
27	of	of	ADP	_	26 out	fixed
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 corner	det
29	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 crept	obl
30	»	»	PUNCT	_	25 crept	punct
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 Magic	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	sing speech: express in a quote	gerund				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not is a in a quote	present	the Still Magic	a Singing Magic		tree rules
3	grow	present	the Cave		still	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	creep out in a quote	past	a little wee mouse	a corner		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location corner=Theme

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:14.

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. 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.

See the release 0.4.

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