--- title: Then she lets him play a string game with the spindle-whorl until th… — Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself,… · tree and pragmatics description: Then she lets him play a string game with the spindle-whorl until the Baby laughs and falls asleep, and the Cat purrs him a sleep-song. Who acts: Woman, Cat, 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 (Woman, Cat, 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:15 # text = Then she lets him play a string game with the spindle-whorl until the Baby laughs and falls asleep, and the Cat purrs him a sleep-song. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 string string NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 spindle spindle NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ _ 13 whorl whorl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod 14 until until SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Baby Baby PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 laughs laugh VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 falls fall VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 20 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 Cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 purrs purr VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 26 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:obj 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 28 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ _ 30 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | present | Woman | Cat | | | then | | tree rules | | 2 | **play** | infinitive | Cat *not said here* | a string game | | | | with the spindle whorl | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent game=Theme with whorl=Co-Agent | | 3 | **laugh** | present | the Baby | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **fall** | present | the Baby *not said here* | | | | | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **purr** | present | the Cat | a sleep song | Baby | | | | 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. 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