--- title: The three magic signs: the curtain fell «whoosh!», the smoke came do… — Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself,… · tree and pragmatics description: The three magic signs: the curtain fell «whoosh!», the smoke came down «puff!», the milk-pot cracked «ffft». Who acts: curtain, smoke, milk pot. 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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 (curtain, smoke, milk pot), 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:20 # text = The three magic signs: the curtain fell «whoosh!», the smoke came down «puff!», the milk-pot cracked «ffft». # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 3 magic magic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 signs sign NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 curtain curtain NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 9 « « PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 10 whoosh whoosh NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 11 ! ! PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ 12 » » PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 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 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 17 down down ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 « « PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 19 puff puff NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 ! ! PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ 21 » » PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 24 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ _ 26 pot pot NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 27 cracked crack VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 acl _ _ 28 « « PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ _ 29 ffft ffft NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 30 » » PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fall** | past | the curtain | whoosh | | | | | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient sign=Result | | 2 | **come down** | past | the smoke | puff | | | | down *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sign=Theme | | 3 | **crack** | participle | the milk pot *not said here* | ffft | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:20`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **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. 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