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 7

That evening the Man sets out his two boots, his little stone axe, a piece of wood and a hatchet: if the Cat does not catch mice, he will throw them at him.

Who acts: Man, Cat, pot · What happens: set out, not catch, throw · To what, where: two boots, mice, Man

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 (Man, Cat, 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 evening	det
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sets	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Man	det
4	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sets	nsubj
5	sets	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 sets	compound:prt
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 boots	nmod:poss
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 boots	nummod
9	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sets	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 axe	punct
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 axe	nmod:poss
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 axe	amod
13	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 axe	compound
14	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 boots	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 piece	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 piece	det
17	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 axe	appos
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 wood	case
19	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 piece	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 hatchet	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 hatchet	det
22	hatchet	hatchet	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wood	conj
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 catch	punct
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 catch	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Cat	det
26	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 catch	nsubj
27	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 catch	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 catch	advmod
29	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 throw	advcl
30	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 catch	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 throw	punct
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 throw	nsubj
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 throw	aux
34	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sets	parataxis
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 throw	obj
36	at	at	ADP	_	37 him	case
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 throw	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sets	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	set out	present	the Man	pot's two boots and pot's little stone axe	evening		tree rules
2	not catch a condition, not said to happen	present · do-support	the Cat	mice			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme
3	throw	future	pot	Man		at mouse	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme at he=Destination

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:7.

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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