PINC

English Subject #10

@begin
@participants: s10 subject10 narrator
@id: eng.pinc.engsubj10.0000.s10
@language: english
@sex of s10: male
@transcriber: Karen Duvall
@location: tape3 side2 number1

*s10: there's a fish in a bowl.
*s10: there's a young girl looking [/] looking out.
*s10: there's a young boy here.
*s10: they look like doctor suess characters.
*s10: here's the cat from the, doctor siss's@n the cat in the hat.
*s10: he's walking, slouched over, pacing, stopped.
*s10: he's talking.
*s10: he doesn't seem to know what he [//]&wh [/] &w what he's supposed to say.
*s10: he's complaining about something.
*s10: he put a &l hat over his head.
*s10: he's [/] he's opened up his hands as though he just [/] he just # doesn't have anything to say here.
*s10: now the other has come on top of it.
*s10: it's covered him up.
*s10: and the hat's become # sort of # a [/] a uniform.
*s10: it's covered &h [//] covered him completely.
*s10: and now he's [/] he's sort of dancing and moving around like a worm.
*s10: he's become a worm.
*s10: he's &be [//] he's +...
*s10: the whole thing's become a fantasy here.
*s10: and now he's doubling back.
*s10: he's become very [/] very long and his &ha +..
*s10: there he finally came out of the hat .
*s10: and now it looks like he's sleeping.
*s10: he's gone back into the hat.
*s10: now his hands are dancing.
*s10: his [//] he [/] he holds up part of himself as though he were his # mustache.
*s10: now he's wearing himself.
*s10: he's kinda [/] he's kinda playing with the extension of himself and talking at the same time.
*s10: the background has just changed to a [/] to a different kind of # muddied red.
*s10: he's climbed back into the hat again.
*s10: he's climbing into the hat so many times that you really couldn't [/] act(ually) really couldn't happen in real life.
*s10: now he looks the cat again, just wearing the hat and the fish is coming into &th the scene.
*s10: the fish is &s standing out of his bowl.
%comment: ctc E.10.289 ok checked
*s10: he's talking obviously to the cat, even though you can't see the cat right now.
*s10: he's waving his arms and gesticulating the cat.
*s10: and the cat seems to be # almost unnerved, maybe upset at the fish.
*s10: they're definitely having a confrontation at this point.
*s10: nope, now they seem to be getting along better.
*s10: they're [/] they're having a discussion.
*s10: he's patting the fish on the head.
*s10: the fish is &si standing back, listening +...
%comment: ctc E.10.290 ok checked
*s10: he's takin(g) the bowl.
*s10: he's takin(g) the fish in the bowl.
*s10: he's movin(g) it and he's puttin(g) it on top of the piano.
*s10: and here are those two charming little children again.
*s10: now he's got a big smile [//], the cat has a big smile on his face and he's speaking to the fish.
*s10: and the fish just leaning on his shoulder, listening.
*s10: and now the cat sat down to play the piano.
*s10: and here he's playin(g) the piano and maybe he's singing.
*s10: I can't tell because I can't hear it.
*s10: the fish doesn't seem to be very impressed at all with this.
*s10: and he's # gesticulating with [/] with his hands with his [/] with his fins actually.
*s10: and he is bored.
*s10: he doesn't like this at all.
*s10: now the cat is climbing out of the bowl with his fingers, but he's quit doing that.
*s10: and the children are looking at each other wondering, "what the heck is going on?"
*s10: and now the cat is playing the piano and earnest and apparently singing a song.
*s10: the children are listening.
*s10: the fish just is not impressed.
*s10: a teddy bear's been put next to the [/] next to the fishbowl.
*s10: and the teddy bear &g it's only a teddy bear, and it's not really alive.
*s10: he has a big smile on his face.
*s10: and the fish is still not impressed, while the cat is singing.
*s10: th:e fish shakes his head # leans on his hands and is just # putting up with whatever is happening.
*s10: the children are listening.
*s10: the fish is not [/] [=! laughing] not happy.
*s10: the teddy bear seems to be enjoying it more than anyone, even though the teddy bear is not real.
*s10: he's got his eyes wide open and his dung grin on his face.
%comment: ctc E.10.291 corrected (error not previously marked in transcription)
*s10: and the fish is just goin(g) to sleep.
*s10: music's over.
*s10: the children and the cat have left the room.
*s10: they've gone into another room and closed the door.
*s10: it seems to be something looking like a kitchen.
*s10: the boy peeks out +...
*s10: it is a kitchen.
*s10: the cat is standing next to the refrigerator.
*s10: the cat is saying something to the children.
*s10: he's seems to be thinking.
*s10: he looks almost like he's lying to the children.
*s10: he was thinking really hard about what he was sayin(g).
*s10: he snaps his fingers.
*s10: he pulls out another hat.
*s10: he's got two hats now.
*s10: and he pulled something out of that hat.
*s10: and it's a box and the box is growing much larger.
*s10: and the children are very amazed.
*s10: the box is very +...
*s10: it's as half as big as the cat is.
*s10: now he's leaning on the box and telling the children a story, most likely about what's inside that box.
*s10: he's patting the box, obviously the box is the subject of this conversation.
*s10: the children are dancing and looking very foolish.
*s10: as the cat is also dancing, and apparently singing, probably about something in the box.
*s10: it looks like he's getting ready to open the box.
*s10: he's patting the box.
*s10: he's leaning on the box.
*s10: and out of the box comes these two strange little characters with numbers on (th)em, very long hair.
*s10: and they run back into the room with the piano and they're # juggling or doing some strange thing with the stick and the fish.
*s10: and the fish is probably not impressed at all as these number one and two things are dancing.
*s10: they're throwing the fish in the air and the boy catches the fish.
*s10: and the fish # is looking at this # number one and number two.
*s10: the fish just jumped out of the bowl and he's calling [//] he's using the telephone.
*s10: he's probably calling nine- one- one.
*s10: the fish is screaming into the telephone.
*s10: it looks like he's screaming for help.
*s10: he's # out of his bowl, which doesn't seem to be a very healthy thing for a fish to do.
*s10: and he's talking and yelling and pointing.
*s10: and the bo:y [*] the bowl [*] is just looks very confused.
%err: bo:y = bowl ; bowl = boy ;
%comment: ctc E.10.292 ok, ctc E.10.293 ok checked
*s10: and now the fish is hittin(g) the phone, trying to get his message across.
*s10: he's complaining about something as he stands on the table, talking the phone.
*s10: and out of the phone comes this little creature.
*s10: it's like [/] # well, it's like the flintstones when there's something inside all of the little mechanisms.
*s10: number two has gotten the fish and he's bowling with the fish now.
*s10: and he's [/] he is bowling with the [=! laughing] fish and [/] and the [/] fish are [*] gonna # strike glasses [*], but they didn't because [*] caught the fish.
%err: are = is ; glasses = pins or bottles ; number one = boy
%comment: ctc E.10.294 ok, ctc E.10.295 ok, ctc E.10.296 ok checked
*s10: the cat's back into the scene, now watching this.
*s10: this number two is flying the fish like a kite on a string.
*s10: the fish is not happy.
*s10: th:e cat is singing.
*s10: the fish is about to get smacked into the door jam (be)cause he's still flying like a kite.
*s10: and he's flying too high.
*s10: but the boy saves him again, and brings him down so he doesn't crash into the door jam.
*s10: meanwhile, the cat is singing and the girl is looking like she's not enjoying this at all anymore.
*s10: she's like you know, he's gone too far.
*s10: number one is sitting on top of the refrigerator and he just jumped off and stole the cat [*] from the boy, actually number two stole the cat [*] from the boy.
%err: cat = fish ; cat = fish ;
%comment: ctc E.10.297 ok, ctc E.10.298 ok, E.10.299 ok checked
*s10: and now they're playing football with it.
*s10: number is standing behind th:e center like he's quarterback and he just got pass.
*s10: now he's dropping back to pass the fish.
*s10: and he fell down the stairway.
*s10: and we don't know what's happening (be)cause nothing's really happening there.
*s10: so it's just the +...
*s10: we're looking at the stairway, trying to figure wh:at +...
*s10: ah@fp they've come back up the stairway and now we're playing hockey with the fish, bouncing the fish around on the floor.
*s10: the boy's trying to save him again.
*s10: the boy's playing goalie and the boy misses the fish.
*s10: and we don't know where they're going, but it's probably a very dangerous place.
*s10: now he's dribbling [//] he's playing basketball with the fish.
*s10: and throwing [*] the [/] the hoop formed by the arms of number two.
%err: throwing = missing it [?] ;
%comment: ctc E.10.300 ok checked
*s10: the water comes out of the fishbowl.
*s10: the fish comes out of the fishbowl.
*s10: and the boy is trying to get, boy catches the water and the boy catches the fish and he saved him one more time.
*s10: slides the fish down through the rooms of the house.
*s10: and the cat and the girl are just standing there talking as the fish slides by.
*s10: the cat is still sitting, we don't know why.
*s10: the fish just jumped out of the fishbowl, probably because it's a very dangerous place to be with all the things that are happening to (h)im.
*s10: and now he's gone up to kick [!!!] out the umbrella from out from underneath the cat.
*s10: the cat falls down and crushes him chin on the floor and the fish is not impressed.
*s10: the fish is yelling at the cat because probably the fish realizes that number one and two came out of the cat's hat.
*s10: and he'd like [/] to take [*] # he'd like the cat to take those number one and two back and quit causing him all this trouble.
%err: he'd like to take = he's like the cat $cor ;
%comment: ctc E.10.301 ok checked
*s10: the fish is screaming at the cat.
*s10: the fish is pointing at the cat.
*s10: the fish is very angry.
*s10: and the cat is # watching the fish as he jumps back [//] the fish jumps back into his bowl.
*s10: the fish is still yelling.
*s10: the fish is yelling from his own position though, so that makes stronger.
*s10: he's not out of the water anymore.
*s10: the cat picks up the fish and [*] him back on the table where he belongs, as though everything's back to normal, though probably nothing will ever be back to normal with this cat or this fish (be)cause things have gone too far.
%err: plats = puts/ places ;
%comment: ctc E.10.302 ok checked
*s10: the cat is [/] is &s is &s somehow rather gesturing, trying to, looking like he makin(g) an excuse for what had happened or tryin(g) to defend himself from what [/] from what # ever [*] the &k [*] fish is saying to him.
%err: never = ever ; &k = fish ;
%comment: ctc E.10.303 ok, ctc E.10.304 ok checked
*s10: and he's explaining everything to the girl who seems to be quite dumb and agreeing with the whole thing.
*s10: an:d the fish is looking, the cat just threw off his hat and he &pu +...
*s10: now he's wearing a sort of little french, brick layer's beret.
*s10: and in comes what looks like one and two but wearing dresses this time and no numbers.
*s10: and they seem to be girls instead of boys, I don't know why I say that, except they're wearing dresses.
*s10: they are thing one and thing two.
*s10: they're no longer just one and two, they've become things.
*s10: the cat now has things.
*s10: the cat is wearing a sombrero.
*s10: we've gone to a mexican world here.
*s10: the cat is doing a little hat dance.
*s10: the boy is wearing a sombrero, just like the cat's, might be the cat's.
*s10: I don't really know.
*s10: the boy and the girl are dancing around back and forth # on the rug that's very red and the background is very orange.
*s10: [=! laughing] and the cat has another hat.
*s10: the cat has an &unda [*] sombrero.
%err: &unda = another ;
%comment: ctc E.10.305 check checked
*s10: he's dancing around the sombrero [//] with the sombrero, doing a famous mexican hat dance.
*s10: he's talking to someone.
*s10: we don't know who.
*s10: he's # took the sombrero off and he's gone back to his normal doctor seuss cat in the hat hat.
*s10: and he's talking to the fish.
*s10: the fish is listening.
*s10: the fish has gone back into the water.
*s10: he's not listening.
*s10: and the cat is still singing his little mexican song.
*s10: he's going over to the piano.
*s10: he's sit down at &th the bar stool.
*s10: his hat has changed one more time.
*s10: and he's playing what looks like kinda ragtime music.
*s10: that was a very short song.
*s10: he's done playing now.
*s10: he's talking about his hat.
*s10: he's pointing to his hat and talking.
*s10: and the children are nodding their heads.
*s10: and he's gone [//] the cat has gone back [=! laughing] to playing the piano again.
*s10: one and two are dancing.
*s10: they've taken on a new hat also, a kinda a fez sort of routine.
*s10: I don't really know what this hat is all about.
*s10: it doesn't look like anything I've ever seen before.
*s10: cat's playing the piano and oh, there's a close up now.
*s10: the keys and the notes were [/] were printed [*] so you could see the notes coming out of the piano.
%err: printed = [?] ;
%comment: ctc E.10.306 ok checked
*s10: now the notes [*] have become the background of this.
%err: who are to be = [?] ;
%comment: ctc E.10.307 check checked (the transcription is correct here)
*s10: the cat is singing the mexican hat, doin(g) his own mexican dance.
*s10: and the notes are coming from the background.
*s10: they come to be so close, they take [/] &th they take over the whole screen.
*s10: now the whole scene has changed, and the cat's wearing kinda like eskimo clothes.
*s10: here he's got a big fur on and a big fur hat with a big bow under his chin.
*s10: and the children are dressed the exact same way.
*s10: and they &ha(ve) [//] the little girl has a muff.
*s10: and # looks like thing one and thing two are gettin(g) into the action now.
*s10: and they're climbing inside a hat, which just became an igloo.
*s10: and the igloo just became a s:led # carried by dogs, [*] but the dogs look more like lions, which is kind of strange considering they're eskimos.
%err: igloo = [?] ;
%comment: ctc E.10.308 ok checked
*s10: the cat [*] is in the bowl [*].
%err: cat = fish ; isinbold = is in the bowl ;
%comment: not in original data, ctc E.10.309 check checked
*s10: the cat is finally smiling again.
%err: cat = fish ;
%commnet: ctc E.10.310 ok checked
*s10: he's got # a whole collection of hats apparently he's [/] the cat seems to have provided him with the &s # the same kind of hats as everybody else is wearing, which is kind of nice, gives the fish something to do.
%comment: ctc E.10.311 ok checked
*s10: um@fp the fish is now dressed like an eskimo in his fishbowl and he's talking to the cat.
*s10: and they seem to be getting along, &f for the first time since the &m movie has begun.
*s10: the # we don't know what they're saying.
*s10: he's gone &ba +...
*s10: he jumped out of the bowl.
*s10: he's # he [/] the fish is dancing [/].
*s10: this is a first in this particular film.
*s10: the fish is dancing.
*s10: the fish is singing and the fish jumps back into his bowl.
*s10: a:nd # is still wearing his hat and nodding foolishly like the children usually do.
*s10: the scene has changed a little bit and there [/] there's a window in &th [//] in the background now.
*s10: a:nd n:ow # he's gone back to the +...
*s10: the window changes color.
*s10: I don't remember what is was before.
*s10: I think it was green.
*s10: the outside of the +...
*s10: the things you can see through the window changed color.
*s10: background keeps changing color.
*s10: it doesn't seem to have anything to do with the movie at all.
*s10: it just changes color.
*s10: I think probably because there's not a whole lot going on.
*s10: and # it gave the people who made this movie something to do.
*s10: the cat is now dancing or falling backwards.
*s10: you can't really tell, except, oh yes, the &st [*] the [/] the [/] the picture shook # like a dozen cartoons when things fall so he must have been falling and not dancing.
%err: &st = [?] ;
%comment: ctc E.10.312 ok checked
*s10: oh, the scene has done a big [//] huge change.
*s10: we have a dancing routine now.
*s10: thing one and thing two are wearing strange things on their heads and they're dancing.
*s10: and the kids are dancing.
*s10: and it almost looks like a [/] an old sixties disco-tech show.
*s10: they have this funny little linoleum floor,
*s10: and the cat is dressed up like a scochman # with his [/] with his [/] with his, those things, [/] those bagpipes that they blow into.
*s10: and now he's skiing down something that looks like hills, but it's really kind of an image of the &h, the way the hats used to be.
*s10: it's got the same [*] as the hats had.
%err: print = pattern ;
%comment: ctc E.10.313 ok checked
*s10: everybody's skiing now.
*s10: nope, nobody's skiing now.
*s10: we've gone back.
*s10: we're irish now.
*s10: we're wearing, # &w we're not even wearing irish things anymore.
*s10: we changed again.
*s10: yes he is.
*s10: he's got his [/] his little three leaf clover on his head.
*s10: and now he's showing off all the hats that we've seen through through this whole show, plus more.
*s10: the fish is in a bowl that looks like the hat.
*s10: the fish is now in a # tower.
*s10: the fish is in +...
*s10: and he's throwing hats down at the children.
*s10: and the cat is not the [/] &th [//] the cat did a dance, the cat stopped doing a dance.
*s10: this just is going too [!!!] fast [=! laughing].
*s10: we now kind of have a statue +...
*s10: the cat is [/] is the statue of liberty now.
*s10: he's # in [/] in &th, and that's changed.
*s10: and # the kids are # totally [/] totally covered up by the hats.
*s10: the [/] &th thing one and thing two are jumped back in their box.
*s10: the cat is going into the closet.
*s10: looks like he's gonna put thing one and thing two away maybe.
*s10: up@fp, no, he actually just climbed into the closet himself.
*s10: and, the poor kids are still covered up with all the hats and they don't seem to know what to do with the hats.
*s10: and the fish doesn't seem to know what's going on.
*s10: he's yelling too.
*s10: and the house is a mess with hats.
*s10: there's hats all over the place.
*s10: there's hats on doors, there's +...
*s10: oh, the cat has come in to clean up the hats.
*s10: he's got this very [!!!] strange, very cool contraption that has two brooms on it and these things that suck up hats.
*s10: and he just drives it around like a streets [*] # cleaner.
%err: streets cleaner = street cleaner ;
%comment: ctc E.10.314 ok checked
*s10: and he's just cleaning the house [*] of all the hats.
%err: = up ;
%comment: ctc E.10.315 check checked (the transcription is correct here)
*s10: the fish is yelling at him to do something, probably just yelling at him to keep cleaning up the hats.
*s10: oh no, he's telling him to # maybe +...
*s10: he's cleaning other things now, so maybe the fish told him to clean the other things.
*s10: and the boy's putting things away neatly in the closet.
*s10: and the girl's putting things neatly away in the dresser.
*s10: and the cat machine is sweeping things under the rug, which doesn't seem right (be)cause &th that thing knows how to sweep stuff up anyway and that wasn't fair.
*s10: that # the little boy and the girl are picked up by the machine.
*s10: and they're put in [*] chairs, so they can look out the &wh, they're put in chairs so they can look out the window.
%err: = [0] ;
%comment: ctc E.10.316 ok checked
*s10: and now he's cleaning the writing on the wall, which is an interesting thought.
*s10: and he's cleaning the mustaches that they drew off the # painting.
*s10: and the expression on the man in the painting changed.
*s10: that was pretty funny.
*s10: the cat is still riding his little machine.
*s10: and he's singing and cleaning and probably gloating that he's done such a good job getting everybody out of trouble, which he's the one who got (th)em into trouble in the first place.
*s10: so, I don't see why he should be so proud.
*s10: he's &ti +...
*s10: oh, he's going out the door, if this thing will fit out the door.
*s10: his little machine looks too big to go out the door.
*s10: but it fit and the door closes.
*s10: and we're back in the room that's empty, except for the fish and the children, looking out the window, while they sit in their chairs.
*s10: the fish is very tired.
*s10: he's leaning on his hands at the bottom of his bowl.
*s10: and he just wants to go to sleep.
*s10: but, # something's bothering him.
*s10: he's [//] he jumped up and he's thinking of saying something to the kids that +...
*s10: up@fp, here he goes.
*s10: he's going to say something to the kids.
*s10: no, he's just too tired.
*s10: he fell to the bottom of the bowl again.
*s10: the children are looking out the window, # looking very perplexed, leaning their chins on their hands as we # [*] of the house and we just see the whole house from the front yard # from the street.
%err: = [?] ;
%comment: ctc E.10.317 ok checked
*s10: and now we're looking at the credits.
*s10: and the credits name all the people who #.
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