The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets, sentence 24

A small pet like a hamster may be frightened by a hand coming down from above, as a hawk would; let it walk onto your flat hand from the side.

Who acts: hand, hawk · What happens: frighten, come down, let, walk · To what, where: small pet, hawk, flat hand

This is a sentence of the lesson «The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets» of the everyday 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 (hand, hawk), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pet	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pet	amod
3	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 frightened	nsubj:pass
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 hamster	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hamster	det
6	hamster	hamster	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pet	nmod
7	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 frightened	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 frightened	aux:pass
9	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 hand	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 hand	det
12	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 frightened	obl:agent
13	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 hand	acl
14	down	down	ADV	_	13 coming	advmod
15	from	from	ADP	_	16 above	case
16	above	above	ADV	_	14 down	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 let	punct
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 would	mark
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 hawk	det
20	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 would	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 frightened	advcl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 let	punct
23	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 frightened	parataxis
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 let	obj
25	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 let	xcomp
26	onto	onto	ADP	_	29 hand	case
27	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 hand	nmod:poss
28	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 hand	amod
29	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 walk	obl
30	from	from	ADP	_	32 side	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 side	det
32	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 walk	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	frighten	may · passive	a hand	a small pet like a hamster			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
2	come down	gerund	a hand not said here			down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	let	infinitive		hawk			tree rules
4	walk	infinitive	hawk not said here		your flat hand	from the side	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto hand=Trajectory

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:everyday:457-the-cat-that-only-likes-dad-and-other-choosy-pets.lesson:24.

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. 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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