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 2
Chee!» The Woman jumps onto a footstool and begs the Cat to eat it.
Who acts: Woman · What happens: jump, beg, eat · To what, where: footstool, Cat
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 (Woman), 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 | Chee | Chee | INTJ | Number=Sing | 6 jumps | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Chee | punct |
| 3 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 1 Chee | punct |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Woman | det |
| 5 | Woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 jumps | nsubj |
| 6 | jumps | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 9 footstool | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 footstool | det |
| 9 | footstool | footstool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 jumps | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 begs | cc |
| 11 | begs | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 jumps | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Cat | det |
| 13 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 begs | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 eat | mark |
| 15 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 begs | xcomp |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 eat | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 jumps | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump in a quote | present | the Woman | a footstool | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto footstool=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | beg speech: request in a quote | present | the Woman not said here | the Cat | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent cat=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | eat not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the Woman not said here | Cat | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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:2.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2. 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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