--- title: The Cat agrees, but adds «still I am the Cat who walks by himself»,… — Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself,… · tree and pragmatics description: The Cat agrees, but adds «still I am the Cat who walks by himself», so the Man says he will throw his boots and axe whenever he meets him. Who acts: Cat, Man, 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 (Cat, Man, 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:8 # text = The Cat agrees, but adds «still I am the Cat who walks by himself», so the Man says he will throw his boots and axe whenever he meets him. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 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 , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 but but CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 adds add VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 7 « « PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 still still ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 10 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 Cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 ccomp _ _ 13 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 walks walk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 by by ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 14 obl _ _ 17 » » PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 throw throw VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 ccomp _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 boots boot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 axe axe NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 30 whenever whenever ADV WRB PronType=Rel 32 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:WRB:_ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 meets meet VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 33 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 . . 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 | **agree** *speech: agree* | present | the Cat | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | the Cat *not said here* | | | | still | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the Cat *= cat* | the Cat | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **walk** *in a quote* | present | the Cat | | | | | by pot | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by himself=Trajectory | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Man | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **throw** | future | pot | pot's boots and axe | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boot=Theme | | 7 | **meet** | present | pot | mouse | | | | whenever *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:095-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself.lesson:8`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked b…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/95-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself/7/) - next →: [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/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/95-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself/)