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title: «That was wonderfully done,» says the Woman; puff, the smoke comes d… — Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself,… · tree and pragmatics
description: «That was wonderfully done,» says the Woman; puff, the smoke comes down, and the Cat is sitting by the fire. Who acts: Woman, smoke, Cat. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: the bargain, the Bat and the Baby» of the books course of Mova's primary school
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# Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: the bargain, the Bat and the Baby, sentence 16

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«That was wonderfully done,» says the Woman; puff, the smoke comes down, and the Cat is sitting by the fire.

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**Who acts:** Woman, smoke, Cat · **What happens:** do, say, come down, sit · **To what, where:** That · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: the bargain, the Bat and the Baby» of the books 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 (Woman, smoke, 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:16
# text = «That was wonderfully done,» says the Woman; puff, the smoke comes down, and the Cat is sitting by the fire.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×3
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
2	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	puff	puff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
17	down	down	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:parataxis
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | That |  |  |  | wonderfully *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Woman and puff |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **come down** | present | the smoke |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **sit** | present · progressive | the Cat |  |  |  |  | by the fire | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location |

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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.

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**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:16`.

**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 ×3. **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/).

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