--- title: That busy morning the Woman carried the crying Baby outside and gave… — Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself,… · tree and pragmatics description: That busy morning the Woman carried the crying Baby outside and gave him a handful of pebbles to play with, but he went on crying. Who acts: Woman, Baby. 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' --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/94-justso-cat-2-a-bargain-and-a-baby/27/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked b…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/94-justso-cat-2-a-bargain-and-a-baby/) / 27 # Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: the bargain, the Bat and the Baby, sentence 27 That busy morning the Woman carried the crying Baby outside and gave him a handful of pebbles to play with, but he went on crying. **Who acts:** Woman, Baby · **What happens:** carry, cry, give, play, go on · **To what, where:** crying Baby, handful, Baby 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, 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:27 # text = That busy morning the Woman carried the crying Baby outside and gave him a handful of pebbles to play with, but he went on crying. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 That that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 2 busy busy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 crying cry VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 amod _ _ 9 Baby Baby PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 outside outside ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 13 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 iobj _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 handful handful NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 pebbles pebble NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 19 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 25 on on ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 26 crying cry VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 xcomp _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **carry** | past | the Woman | the crying Baby | | | morning | outside *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme | | 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **give** | past | the Woman *not said here* | a handful of pebbles | Baby | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient handful=Theme | | 4 | **play** | to-infinitive | the Woman *not said here* | | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **go on** | past | Baby | | | | | | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | Baby *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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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