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title: Pussy stretched out her paw very carefully, pushed aside some of the… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Pussy stretched out her paw very carefully, pushed aside some of the cinders, and drew back her paw very quickly. Who acts: Pussy. 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 8

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Pussy stretched out her paw very carefully, pushed aside some of the cinders, and drew back her paw very quickly.

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**Who acts:** Pussy · **What happens:** stretch out, push, draw back · **To what, where:** paw

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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 (Pussy), 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:pg19994:63:8
# text = Pussy stretched out her paw very carefully, pushed aside some of the cinders, and drew back her paw very quickly.
1	Pussy	Pussy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	paw	paw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	pushed	push	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
10	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	obl:agent	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	cinders	cinder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	back	back	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	paw	paw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	very	very	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stretch out** | past | Pussy | Pussy's paw |  |  |  | carefully *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent paw=Patient |
| 2 | **push** | participle | Pussy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **draw back** | past | Pussy *not said here* | Pussy's paw |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paw=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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