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 18
Even the First Friend is not quick enough to catch little mice as you have done.
Who acts: First Friend, you · What happens: not be, catch, do · To what, where: little mice
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 (First Friend, you), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 4 Friend | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Friend | det |
| 3 | First | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 Friend | amod |
| 4 | Friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 quick | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 quick | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 quick | advmod |
| 7 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 7 quick | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 catch | mark |
| 10 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 quick | advcl |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 mice | amod |
| 12 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 catch | obj |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 done | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 done | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 done | aux |
| 16 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 catch | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 quick | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | the First Friend | enough, quick property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | catch | to-infinitive | the First Friend not said here | little mice | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | present · perfect | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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:095-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself.lesson:18.
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 ×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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