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title: A Cat, discovering this, made her way into it and began to catch and… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A Cat, discovering this, made her way into it and began to catch and eat them one by one. Who acts: Cat. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 64

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A Cat, discovering this, made her way into it and began to catch and eat them one by one.

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**Who acts:** Cat · **What happens:** discover, make, begin, catch, eat · **To what, where:** this, HOUSE, way, Cat

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 7. 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:pg21:9:64
# text = A Cat, discovering this, made her way into it and began to catch and eat them one by one.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	discovering	discover	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **discover** | gerund | a Cat *not said here* | this |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Topic |
| 2 | **make** | past | a Cat | HOUSE |  | way |  | way *obl:unmarked* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent she=Material into it=Product |
| 3 | **begin** | past | a Cat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **catch** | to-infinitive | a Cat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **eat** | infinitive | a Cat *not said here* | Cat |  |  |  | one by one *obl* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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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:** «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (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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