--- title: Wild Dog smells roast mutton and goes to look; the Cat says «Nenni!»… — Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself,… · tree and pragmatics description: Wild Dog smells roast mutton and goes to look; the Cat says «Nenni!», he will not come, but he follows secretly and hides where he can hear everything. Who acts: Wild Dog, Cat. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wild Dog, Cat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:093-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant.lesson:4 # text = Wild Dog smells roast mutton and goes to look; the Cat says «Nenni!», he will not come, but he follows secretly and hides where he can hear everything. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 093-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Wild wild PROPN NNP _ 2 compound _ _ 2 Dog Dog PROPN NNP _ 3 nsubj _ _ 3 smells smell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 roast roast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 mutton mutton NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 Cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 14 « « PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 15 Nenni Nenni PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 ! ! PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ 17 » » PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 20 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 22 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:ccomp 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 follows follow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 27 secretly secretly ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 hides hide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 30 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 33 advmod _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:xcomp 34 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 33 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **smell** | present | Wild Dog | roast mutton | | | | | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mutton=Stimulus | | 2 | **go** | present | Wild Dog *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **look** | to-infinitive | Wild Dog *not said here* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Cat | Nenni | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nenni=Topic | | 5 | **not** **come** | future | Cat | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **follow** | present | Cat | | | | | secretly *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **hide** | present | Cat *not said here* | | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **hear** | can | Cat | everything | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:093-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant.lesson:4`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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