--- title: The Woman, not seeing who it is, says «A blessing on that Wild Thing… — Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself,… · tree and pragmatics description: The Woman, not seeing who it is, says «A blessing on that Wild Thing», and whoosh, the horse-skin curtain falls: the Cat is inside. Who acts: Woman, cheek, skin curtain, 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 (Woman, cheek, skin curtain, Cat), 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:14 # text = The Woman, not seeing who it is, says «A blessing on that Wild Thing», and whoosh, the horse-skin curtain falls: the Cat is inside. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 seeing see VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 acl _ _ 6 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 ccomp _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 10 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 « « ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 blessing blessing NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 15 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 17 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:det 16 Wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 Thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:compound 18 » » NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 whoosh whoosh VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 24 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ _ 26 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 curtain curtain NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 falls fall VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=21:conj 29 : : PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 Cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 33 inside inside ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **see** | gerund | the Woman *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **is a** | present | cheek | the Woman | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Woman | | | | | « a blessing that Wild Thing on » | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **whoosh** | present | the Woman *not said here* | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **fall** | present | the skin curtain | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is** | present | the Cat | | | | | inside *property* | tree rules | 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:14`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked b…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/94-justso-cat-2-a-bargain-and-a-baby/13/) - next →: [Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked b…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/94-justso-cat-2-a-bargain-and-a-baby/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/94-justso-cat-2-a-bargain-and-a-baby/)