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 20

The three magic signs: the curtain fell «whoosh!», the smoke came down «puff!», the milk-pot cracked «ffft».

Who acts: curtain, smoke, milk pot · What happens: fall, come down, crack · To what, where: whoosh, puff, ffft

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 (curtain, smoke, milk pot), 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	4 signs	det
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 signs	nummod
3	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 signs	amod
4	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 signs	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 curtain	det
7	curtain	curtain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fell	nsubj
8	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 signs	acl:relcl
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 whoosh	punct
10	whoosh	whoosh	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fell	obl
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 whoosh	punct
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 whoosh	punct
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 smoke	det
15	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 signs	acl:relcl
17	down	down	ADV	_	16 came	advmod
18	«	«	PUNCT	_	19 puff	punct
19	puff	puff	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	obl
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	19 puff	punct
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	19 puff	punct
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 pot	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 pot	det
24	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 pot	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 milk	punct
26	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 signs	conj
27	cracked	crack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 pot	acl
28	«	«	PUNCT	_	29 ffft	punct
29	ffft	ffft	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cracked	obl
30	»	»	PUNCT	_	29 ffft	punct
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 signs	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the curtain	whoosh		vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient sign=Result
2	come down	past	the smoke	puff	down property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sign=Theme
3	crack	participle	the milk pot not said here	ffft		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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:20.

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): 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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