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title: The Cat was no longer able to get at them and perceived that she mus… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The Cat was no longer able to get at them and perceived that she must tempt them forth by some device. Who acts: Cat, HOUSE. 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 66

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The Cat was no longer able to get at them and perceived that she must tempt them forth by some device.

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**Who acts:** Cat, HOUSE · **What happens:** be, get, perceive, tempt · **To what, where:** 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, HOUSE), 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:pg21:9:66
# text = The Cat was no longer able to get at them and perceived that she must tempt them forth by some device.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	no	no	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	perceived	perceive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	tempt	tempt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	device	device	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Cat |  |  |  |  | able, long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | to-infinitive | the Cat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at Cat | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **perceive** | past | the Cat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **tempt** | must | HOUSE | Cat |  |  |  | by some device; forth *property* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |

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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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