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title: The cat colony had not yet taken another servant, for they knew they… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The cat colony had not yet taken another servant, for they knew they could never get one to replace Lizina, whose loss they had not yet ceased to mourn. Who acts: mother, one. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 49

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The cat colony had not yet taken another servant, for they knew they could never get one to replace Lizina, whose loss they had not yet ceased to mourn.

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**Who acts:** mother, one · **What happens:** not take, know, not get, replace, not cease, mourn · **To what, where:** cat colony, one, Lizina, loss · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, one), 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:pg2435:36:49
# text = The cat colony had not yet taken another servant, for they knew they could never get one to replace Lizina, whose loss they had not yet ceased to mourn.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	colony	colony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	replace	replace	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
21	Lizina	Lizina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
28	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	ceased	cease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	acl:relcl	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	mourn	mourn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **take** | past · perfect · passive |  | the cat colony |  |  | yet |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme servant=Destination |
| 2 | **know** | past | mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **get** | could | mother | one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **replace** | to-infinitive | one *not said here* | Lizina |  |  |  |  | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lizina=Co-Theme |
| 5 | **not** **cease** | past · perfect | mother | Lizina's loss *not said here* |  |  | yet |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **mourn** | to-infinitive | mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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