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title: Now the master came in, and away scampered the rascals, Mistress Cat… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the master came in, and away scampered the rascals, Mistress Cat with a burnt paw and no chestnuts. Who acts: master. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Monkey and the Cat, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Monkey and the Cat, sentence 13

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Now the master came in, and away scampered the rascals, Mistress Cat with a burnt paw and no chestnuts.

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**Who acts:** master · **What happens:** come in, scamper · **To what, where:** rascals

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Monkey and the Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master), 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:pg19994:63:13
# text = Now the master came in, and away scampered the rascals, Mistress Cat with a burnt paw and no chestnuts.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	away	away	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	scampered	scamper	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	rascals	rascal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	Mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	burnt	burnt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	paw	paw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
21	chestnuts	chestnut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come in** | past | the master |  |  |  | now |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **scamper** | participle | the master *not said here* | the rascals and no chestnuts |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location rascal=Theme |

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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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