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title: But as nothing stirred, all trooped joyfully out to celebrate the de… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: But as nothing stirred, all trooped joyfully out to celebrate the death of the Cat. Who acts: Cat. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Cat and the Old Rat, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Old Rat, sentence 7

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But as nothing stirred, all trooped joyfully out to celebrate the death of the Cat.

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**Who acts:** Cat · **What happens:** stir, troop, celebrate, die · **To what, where:** nothing, death

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Cat and the Old Rat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cat), 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:pg19994:131:7
# text = But as nothing stirred, all trooped joyfully out to celebrate the death of the Cat.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	stirred	stir	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	all	all	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	trooped	troop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	joyfully	joyfully	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	out	out	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	celebrate	celebrate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stir** | participle · passive |  | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **troop** | past |  |  |  |  |  | all, out *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **celebrate** | to-infinitive |  | the death of the Cat |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Theme |
| 4 | **die** |  | the Cat |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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