English Subject #17


@begin
@participants: s17 subject17 narrator
@id: eng.pinc.engsubj17.0000.s17
@language: english
@sex of s17: female
@transcriber: Karen Duvall
@location: tape5 side1 number2

  1. *s17: ok, # [/] ok um
    @fp there's a little boy in the picture.
  2. *s17: and there's the cat in the hat with the, he's walking around with his hands behind his back, looking pretty sad.
  3. *s17: um
    @fp # he's talking to the little boy.
  4. *s17: he just out the # hat over his head.
  5. *s17: and ah
    @fp, looks like he's singing.
  6. *s17: um
    @fp, [=! laughing] I don't know how to describe this.
  7. *s17: he's dancing, whatever [=! laughing].
  8. *s17: and uh
    @fp, uh
    @fp now # thee, he put the hat over his head.
  9. *s17: and now it's extended across the picture.
  10. *s17: and um
    @fp, he it &l, he looks like he's singing.
  11. *s17: and now he picks up the uh
    @fp hat and puts it over his head.
  12. *s17: and uh
    @fp, I don't know, um
    @fp # I'm not quite sure what's going on.
  13. *s17: uh
    @fp, now the # uh
    @fp # he's smashed inside [=! laughing] hat.
  14. *s17: um
    @fp, now his friend the fish is in this fishbowl talking to him.
  15. *s17: and uh
    @fp, he's yelling at him, yelling at the cat in the hat.
    %comment: ctc E.17.418 ok checked
  16. *s17: and uh
    @fp, I'm not sure what they're talking about, but # um
    @fp #.
  17. *s17: now the cat in the hat is talking to the uh
    @fp fish and patting him on the head.
  18. *s17: now he's taking the bowl over, with the fish inside over to the piano and setting the # thee fishbowl on the piano, while thee ah
    @fp two children are watching # him talk to the fish.
  19. *s17: um
    @fp, ok the cat in the hat is sitting down at the piano and started playing and singing at the piano.
  20. *s17: I'm not sure what's he's talking about, but the fish is disgusted # with him.
  21. *s17: um
    @fp the fish is just # bored, [//] looking bored.
  22. *s17: and the kids are just looking at each other, wondering what's going on.
  23. *s17: um
    @fp, and the cat in the hat continued to play the piano.
  24. *s17: and uh
    @fp, places a # stuffed animal near the fish.
  25. *s17: so uh
    @fp, I don't know.
  26. *s17: it looks like maybe he's trying to console him over something.
  27. *s17: I'm not quite sure what.
  28. *s17: ok, now the uh
    @fp, fish is uh
    @fp # continue [*] look pretty bored.
    %err: continue = continuing ;
    %comment: ctc E.17.419 ok checked
  29. *s17: and his eyes are dropping.
  30. *s17: and he's kind of slumping into the fishbowl.
  31. *s17: and all of a sudden he's at the bottom of the fishbowl.
  32. *s17: the cat in the hat and the two kids ah
    @fp leave the room, close the door.
  33. *s17: and uh
    @fp looks like they might be in a kitchen.
  34. *s17: uh
    @fp little boy's peeking through the # door.
  35. *s17: and uh
    @fp the cat in the hat is uh
    @fp talking to the [*].
    %err: chillern = children ;
    %comment: ctc E.17.420 ok checked
  36. *s17: it's a boy and a girl, actually I [/] # I didn't say before.
  37. *s17: um
    @fp # now the cat in the hat pulls something out of his hat.
  38. *s17: ah
    @fp looks like it's a block that's getting bigger and bigger and bigger.
  39. *s17: and uh
    @fp, now he's leaning over it.
  40. *s17: and uh
    @fp talking to the kids.
  41. *s17: and he's pounding on it.
  42. *s17: um
    @fp, now he starts to sing and the kids are # going to the rhythm of the music, while the cat in the hat is singing.
  43. *s17: and uh
    @fp, he &op [*], looks like opens up the [/] the box.
    %err: &op = opens ;
    %comment: ctc E.17.421 ok checked
  44. *s17: and two little # elfs [=! laughing] or whatever come running out.
  45. *s17: and uh
    @fp, they go into the room where the fish is and they start rotating the fish on a cane.
  46. *s17: um
    @fp, and the fishbowl flies through the air.
  47. *s17: the little boy runs to catch it.
  48. *s17: and uh
    @fp, these two little elfs start dancing all over.
  49. *s17: the fish uh
    @fp runs over to the telephone and starts making a phone call.
  50. *s17: I'm not sure to who.
  51. *s17: um
    @fp, but he's talking # in the phone.
  52. *s17: and uh
    @fp, looks disgusted again.
  53. *s17: and, the little boy's standing there, holding the fishbowl.
  54. *s17: um
    @fp, the fish looks kind of frantic.
  55. *s17: and out of the phone uh
    @fp # pops out one of the elves.
  56. *s17: and the fish starts uh
    @fp jumping # across the room and jumps back into the fishbowl.
  57. *s17: and this # elf takes the fishbowl and rolls it like a bowling ball.
  58. *s17: and hits uh
    @fp, a bunch of bowling +...
  59. *s17: &wha, didn't quite hit the pins.
  60. *s17: but [=! laughing], now the [=! laughing], [//] now thee uh
    @fp # [=! laughing], this is pretty hilarious.
  61. *s17: thee uh
    @fp, [=! laughing] elf is um
    @fp, uh
    @fp # put a string around the fishbowl and is flying across the room, with the uh
    @fp fishbowl in the air.
    %comment: ctc E.17.422 check filled pauses checkd
  62. *s17: and the little boy runs to catch it.
  63. *s17: and uh
    @fp, the cat in the hat is still singing.
  64. *s17: and the little girl is next to him.
  65. *s17: um
    @fp, # now the little boy is in the kitchen, still holding the fishbowl.
  66. *s17: one of the elves takes the fishbowl.
  67. *s17: and uh
    @fp, passes the fishbowl to thee # second elf.
  68. *s17: and he starts running like he's gonna throw a [/] a football pass.
  69. *s17: and he goes down the steps.
  70. *s17: I guess falling down the steps.
  71. *s17: um
    @fp, because all you hear is a crash, but he's ok.
  72. *s17: he comes up with a hockey stick.
  73. *s17: and now they're playing hockey in the kitchen, with the fishbowl being the puck.
  74. *s17: um
    @fp, now the little boy runs after him.
  75. *s17: and uh
    @fp, now they're, now he's using the fishbowl as a basketball.
  76. *s17: and uh
    @fp, the other elf is making a hoop with his hands.
  77. *s17: an:d, the fish is flying.
  78. *s17: uh
    @fp, the little boy catches the fish with the fishbowl.
  79. *s17: and uh
    @fp, this poor little fish is sliding all over on the floor is his fishbowl.
  80. *s17: now he jumps out.
  81. *s17: and he's pretty irritated.
  82. *s17: and uh
    @fp, he runs over to the cat in the hat.
  83. *s17: and uh
    @fp, who falls on the floor.
  84. *s17: um
    @fp, now the fish is yelling at the cat in the hat.
  85. *s17: and uh
    @fp, looks like he's [//] # trying to uh
    @fp the cat in the hat is trying to appease him.
  86. *s17: but the fish is totally disgusted.
  87. *s17: and uh
    @fp, then he jumps back into his bowl.
  88. *s17: and um
    @fp, the he's having some sort of interaction [=! laughing] with the cat in the hat, but I'm not # quite sure what they're talking about, other than he's disgusted with the way he's being treated.
  89. *s17: um
    @fp, # now uh
    @fp let's see.
  90. *s17: the cat in the hat is uh
    @fp, placed the fishbowl on a table.
  91. *s17: and uh
    @fp, the little girl is standing next to him.
  92. *s17: and um
    @fp, # let's see.
  93. *s17: he's dancing a little bit, um
    @fp between the two of them.
  94. *s17: and uh
    @fp, he grabs an umbrella that's standing there.
  95. *s17: and he's acting like a french man.
  96. *s17: now the two elves come out and they start dancing thee um
    @fp whatever that french dance is.
  97. *s17: uh
    @fp, [=! laughing], oh, they're called thing one and thing two.
  98. *s17: um
    @fp, now the cat in the hat um
    @fp turns his hat into a mexican uh
    @fp sombrero.
  99. *s17: and uh
    @fp, the two kids are dancing # like uh
    @fp a &mex, some mexican dance.
  100. *s17: the little boy has a sombrero on this head too.
  101. *s17: and uh
    @fp, now the cat in the hat is dancing around a second sombrero that's on the floor.
  102. *s17: and uh
    @fp, let's see.
  103. *s17: um
    @fp, now he takes off the sombrero and he's got his hat on.
  104. *s17: um
    @fp, and he's talking to the fish.
  105. *s17: and now he's dancing.
  106. *s17: he takes off the sombrero.
  107. *s17: he goes over to the &tee [*], to the uh
    @fp piano where the two kids are watching him play piano and singing.
    %err: &tee = piano ;
    %comment: ctc E.17.423 ok checked
  108. *s17: and uh
    @fp, he turned his hat into # &eh, I don't what's another kind of hat, but I'm not # quite [//] sure, quite what it is.
  109. *s17: um
    @fp, now the two things are dancing.
  110. *s17: oh, maybe it's irish, yeah that's what it is.
  111. *s17: it's a # kind of like a irish &da jig
    %comment: ctc E.17.424 ok checked
  112. *s17: um
    @fp, # now he's playing uh
    @fp the piano.
  113. *s17: and um
    @fp, the cat in the hat is singing.
  114. *s17: and uh
    @fp his hat turns into sombrero.
  115. *s17: and then he turns into the hat that's irish.
  116. *s17: now he's got a um
    @fp like a russian attire on, hat.
  117. *s17: and oh maybe it's eskimo [=! laughing].
  118. *s17: um
    @fp, well something to do with the cold because they've got muffs and uh
    @fp # very heavy fur coats on.
  119. *s17: and uh
    @fp, a full # I guess it's alaskan now [=! laughing] because they're in an &ig igloo.
  120. *s17: and um
    @fp, they're riding a &s sled # uh
    @fp run by, I think it was # dogs or uh
    @fp, I don't know what animals.
  121. *s17: uh
    @fp , now they uh
    @fp fish is putting on all the different kinds of hats that the cat in the hat had on.
  122. *s17: um
    @fp, and ah
    @fp, he's singing to the cat in the hat.
  123. *s17: and um
    @fp, now they're # talking to each other.
  124. *s17: um
    @fp, # now he's got a # hat on that looks like the cat in the hat's hat.
  125. *s17: and uh
    @fp, he jumps back into the fishbowl.
  126. *s17: um
    @fp, and they both seem happier.
  127. *s17: and uh
    @fp, now the cat in the hat is standing there # continue [*] to talk to the fish # in the fishbowl.
    %err: continue = continuing ;
    %comment: ctc E.17.425 ok checked
  128. *s17: and cat in the hat is dancing.
  129. *s17: um
    @fp, and the fish is also dancing.
  130. *s17: and he's happy.
  131. *s17: and uh
    @fp, now he's doin(g) some sort of russian # um
    @fp dance.
  132. *s17: um
    @fp and he's sliding across the broom [*].
    %err: broom = room ;
    %comment: ctc E.17.426 checked
  133. *s17: a:nd looks like he's [//] he fell into the wall.
  134. *s17: um
    @fp, # and he's all frazzled, but ah
    @fp he changes his hat and he looks fine.
  135. *s17: um
    @fp, now the two things are # dancing.
  136. *s17: and uh
    @fp, of different ethnic # cultures here.
  137. *s17: um
    @fp, now the two kids are [/] are dancing this # it looks like a scottish um
    @fp # attire.
  138. *s17: the cat in the hat has bagpipes.
  139. *s17: um
    @fp, now he's sliding down hills on skis.
  140. *s17: so I imagine this would be ah
    @fp # maybe austria.
  141. *s17: um
    @fp, now he's got a irish hat on.
  142. *s17: um
    @fp, # and the # he's just juggling all these different kinds of hats from different um
    @fp ethnics [*].
    %err: ethnics = ethnicities ;
    %comment: ctc E.17.427 ok checked
  143. *s17: and um
    @fp [=! laughing] # oh this is going so fast.
  144. *s17: I can hardly keep up with it.
  145. *s17: um
    @fp, [=! laughing], now all these hats are flying in the air.
  146. *s17: uh
    @fp, now he's chinese.
  147. *s17: um
    @fp, # and now he's irish again.
  148. *s17: and uh
    @fp, he's at the top of thee uh
    @fp, &w, acting like the statue of liberty.
  149. *s17: um
    @fp, now there's all these different +...
  150. *s17: uh
    @fp # the things go back in [//] run back into the box.
  151. *s17: and all of a sudden the box disappears.
  152. *s17: thee uh
    @fp, cat in the hat um
    @fp has the door open.
  153. *s17: he's got an umbrella in his hand.
  154. *s17: and he walks out the door.
  155. *s17: and the kids are left in the room with um
    @fp # all these things from different countries.
  156. *s17: um
    @fp, how would I describe it, hats um
    @fp # mostly hats.
  157. *s17: a:nd now uh
    @fp, the cat in the hat comes out with some device that's cleaning up everything with a sweeper.
  158. *s17: and uh
    @fp, everything that's # out there and # is being swept up.
  159. *s17: and uh
    @fp, he's singing while he's going along.
  160. *s17: and the fish is watching him.
  161. *s17: and uh
    @fp, # he's cleaning everything.
  162. *s17: and the # um
    @fp # table.
  163. *s17: uh
    @fp, the kids are putting everything back in the drawer.
  164. *s17: and # everything that's been broken [=! laughing] is being swept under the rug.
  165. *s17: um
    @fp, the fish is # talking.
  166. *s17: um
    @fp, and the [/] the device picks up the two kids and puts them in a chair.
  167. *s17: um
    @fp, # and the cat in the hat is cleaning everything up inside the house.
  168. *s17: pictures, and # dusting, and [/] and uh
    @fp # this device is now going across the room.
  169. *s17: and looks like he's heading towards the door.
  170. *s17: um
    @fp, &an while he's still talking to the fish.
  171. *s17: um
    @fp , and he's controlling the device with a # stick.
  172. *s17: um
    @fp, so he goes through the door.
  173. *s17: the door closes.
  174. *s17: and the fish # sinks down to the bottom of the bowl.
  175. *s17: he looks like he's dead, but he's just kind of # laying there.
  176. *s17: and the kids are talking.
  177. *s17: um
    @fp, no there not talking, but they're lookin(g) at each other.
  178. *s17: and uh
    @fp, they're looking outside the window now, # kind of bored # looking.
  179. *s17: and uh
    @fp, now you see a picture of the house form the outside.
  180. *s17: and the cat in the hat walks by.
  181. *s17: [=! laughing], wow [!!!]
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