Cats and dogs up close, sentence 6

She holds a finger out low and waits; the cat sniffs it and rubs its cheek on her hand, and only then does she stroke it gently.

Who acts: girl, cat · What happens: hold, wait, sniff, rub, stroke · To what, where: finger, cheek, hand

This is a sentence of the lesson «Cats and dogs up close» 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 (girl, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 holds	nsubj
2	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 finger	det
4	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 holds	obj
5	out	out	ADV	_	6 low	advmod
6	low	low	ADV	_	2 holds	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 waits	cc
8	waits	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 holds	conj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 rubs	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cat	det
11	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sniffs	nsubj
12	sniffs	sniff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 holds	parataxis
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sniffs	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 rubs	cc
15	rubs	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 sniffs	conj
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 cheek	nmod:poss
17	cheek	cheek	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rubs	obj
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 hand	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 hand	nmod:poss
20	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rubs	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 stroke	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 stroke	cc
23	only	only	ADV	_	27 stroke	advmod
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 stroke	advmod
25	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 stroke	aux
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 stroke	nsubj
27	stroke	stroke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 holds	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 stroke	obj
29	gently	gently	ADV	_	27 stroke	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 holds	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	present	girl	a finger			low property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Theme
2	wait	present	girl not said here					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sniff	present	the cat	finger				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	rub	present	the cat not said here	finger's cheek	girl's hand			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cheek=Theme on hand=Destination
5	stroke	present · do-support	girl	cheek		then	gently property	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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:061-cats-and-dogs-up-close.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): 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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