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title: "I'm weaving, dear aunt, I'm weaving," gruffly replied the Cat. — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: "I'm weaving, dear aunt, I'm weaving," gruffly replied the Cat. Who acts: Cat. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 2

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"I'm weaving, dear aunt, I'm weaving," gruffly replied the Cat.

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**Who acts:** Cat · **What happens:** weave, reply · **To what, where:** dear aunt · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11. 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:pg22373:29:2
# text = "I'm weaving, dear aunt, I'm weaving," gruffly replied the Cat.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	weaving	weave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	aunt	aunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	weaving	weave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
14	gruffly	gruffly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weave** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the Cat *= cat* | dear aunt |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **weave** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the Cat *= cat* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the Cat |  |  |  |  | gruffly *property* | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=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:** «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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