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 5

You must be very wise,» she says, and the milk-pot cracks in two: the Cat is lapping the milk.

Who acts: You, Woman, milk pot, Cat · What happens: be, say, crack, lap · To what, where: two, milk · 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 (You, Woman, milk pot, Cat), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 wise	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 wise	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 wise	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 wise	advmod
5	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 says	nsubj
9	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wise	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cracks	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 cracks	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 pot	det
13	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pot	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 milk	punct
15	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cracks	nsubj
16	cracks	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 says	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 two	case
18	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 cracks	obl
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 lapping	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Cat	det
21	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lapping	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 lapping	aux
23	lapping	lap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 cracks	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 milk	det
25	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lapping	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	must	You			wise property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present	Woman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	crack in a quote	present	the milk pot		two		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in two=Location
4	lap in a quote	present · progressive	the Cat	the milk			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=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:5.

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, 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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