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 28

The poem: «But Binkie, he snores at my feet all night, And he is my Firstest Friend!»; the child thinks the Pussy's love is «only pretend» because she goes out at night.

Who acts: poem, love, Friend, Pussy · What happens: snore, be, think, go out, love · To what, where: feet, Firstest Friend · 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 (poem, love, Friend, Pussy), 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	2 poem	det
2	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 thinks	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 Binkie	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 Binkie	punct
5	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 Binkie	cc
6	Binkie	Binkie	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 poem	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 snores	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 snores	nsubj
9	snores	snore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Binkie	conj
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 feet	case
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 feet	nmod:poss
12	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 snores	obl
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 night	det
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 snores	obl:unmarked
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Friend	punct
16	And	and	CCONJ	_	21 Friend	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 Friend	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 Friend	cop
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 Friend	nmod:poss
20	Firstest	first	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 Friend	amod
21	Friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 poem	conj
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 poem	punct
23	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 poem	punct
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 thinks	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 child	det
26	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 thinks	nsubj
27	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Pussy	det
29	Pussy	pussy	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 love	nmod:poss
30	's	's	PART	_	29 Pussy	case
31	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 pretend	nsubj
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 pretend	cop
33	«	«	PUNCT	_	35 pretend	punct
34	only	only	ADV	_	35 pretend	advmod
35	pretend	pretend	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 thinks	ccomp
36	»	»	PUNCT	_	35 pretend	punct
37	because	because	SCONJ	_	39 goes	mark
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 goes	nsubj
39	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 thinks	advcl
40	out	out	PART	_	39 goes	compound:prt
41	at	at	ADP	_	42 night	case
42	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 goes	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 thinks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snore in a quote	present	poem		my feet	night		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	poem	my Firstest Friend				tree rules
3	think speech: other	present	the poem and my Firstest Friend					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	present	the Pussy's love				pretend property	tree rules
5	go out	present	Friend			night		vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	love		the Pussy					nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=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:28.

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): no change. 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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