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title: "Why, nine black cats all like our friend Tom here, all with a white… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Why, nine black cats all like our friend Tom here, all with a white spot on their chestesses. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 20

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"Why, nine black cats all like our friend Tom here, all with a white spot on their chestesses.

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg14241:29:20
# text = "Why, nine black cats all like our friend Tom here, all with a white spot on their chestesses.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
7	all	all	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
12	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	obl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	chestesses	chestess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**Text:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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