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 6

The Woman laughs and gives him a bowl of milk, but warns him: his bargain was not with the Man or the Dog.

Who acts: Woman, bargain, pot · What happens: laugh, give, warn, not be, bargain · To what, where: bowl, pot · 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 (Woman, bargain, 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	2 Woman	det
2	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laughs	nsubj
3	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 gives	cc
5	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 laughs	conj
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gives	iobj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bowl	det
8	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gives	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 milk	case
10	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bowl	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 warns	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 warns	cc
13	warns	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gives	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 warns	obj
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 Man	punct
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 bargain	nmod:poss
17	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Man	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 Man	cop
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 Man	advmod
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 Man	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Man	det
22	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 warns	ccomp
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 Dog	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Dog	det
25	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Man	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laughs	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	laugh	present	the Woman				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	give	present	the Woman not said here	a bowl of milk	pot		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bowl=Theme
3	warn speech: warn	present	the Woman not said here		pot		vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	not is	past	pot's bargain			with the Man or the Dog	tree rules
5	bargain		pot				nom bargain «communication intransitive»: 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:6.

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 ×3, 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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