--- title: The Cat agrees, as long as the Baby does not pull his tail too hard,… — Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself,… · tree and pragmatics description: The Cat agrees, as long as the Baby does not pull his tail too hard, but again says he walks by himself, so the Dog will chase him up a tree. Who acts: Cat, Baby, Dog. 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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 (Cat, Baby, Dog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:095-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself.lesson:10 # text = The Cat agrees, as long as the Baby does not pull his tail too hard, but again says he walks by himself, so the Dog will chase him up a tree. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 095-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself.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): no change 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 agrees agree VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 5 as as ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 12 advmod _ _ 7 as as SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Baby Baby PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 10 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 pull pull VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 too too ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 12 advmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 again again ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 walks walk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 ccomp _ _ 23 by by ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 22 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 so so ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 Dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 29 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 chase chase VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 31 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 up up ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | present | the Cat | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **pull** | present · do-support | the Baby | Baby's tail | | | | hard, long *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Cat *not said here* | | | | again | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **walk** | present | Baby | | | | | by Baby | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by himself=Trajectory | | 5 | **chase up** | future | the Dog | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:095-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself.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): no change. **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…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/95-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself/9/) - next →: [Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked b…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/95-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/95-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself/)