--- title: Only the little upside-down Bat knows where he is and brings him new… — Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself,… · tree and pragmatics description: Only the little upside-down Bat knows where he is and brings him news: there is a new Baby in the Cave, fond of soft, tickly, warm things and of being played with. Who acts: little down Bat, Bat, new Baby. 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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 (little down Bat, Bat, new Baby), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:094-justso-cat-2-a-bargain-and-a-baby.lesson:10 # text = Only the little upside-down Bat knows where he is and brings him news: there is a new Baby in the Cave, fond of soft, tickly, warm things and of being played with. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 094-justso-cat-2-a-bargain-and-a-baby.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Only only ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 3 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 4 upside upside NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 6 down down NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 Bat bat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 8 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 8 ccomp _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 brings bring VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 iobj _ _ 15 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 17 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 18 expl _ _ 18 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 Baby Baby PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 Cave cave NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:obl 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 fond fond ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 28 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 30 tickly tickly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 32 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 of of SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 36 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 37 aux:pass _ _ 37 played play VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 conj _ _ 38 with with ADP IN _ 37 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | present | the little down Bat | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **is** | present | Bat | | | | | where *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **bring** | present | the little down Bat *not said here* | news | Bat | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination news=Theme | | 4 | **be** | present | a new Baby in the Cave | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **play** | gerund · passive | a new Baby in the Cave *not said here* | | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V» | 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:094-justso-cat-2-a-bargain-and-a-baby.lesson:10`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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