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title: All this, however, was untrue; the cat had no cousin, and had not be… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: All this, however, was untrue; the cat had no cousin, and had not been asked to be godmother. Who acts: All, cat. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Cat and Mouse in Partnership, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Cat and Mouse in Partnership, sentence 10

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All this, however, was untrue; the cat had no cousin, and had not been asked to be godmother.

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**Who acts:** All, cat · **What happens:** be, have, not ask · **To what, where:** cousin, godmother

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Cat and Mouse in Partnership. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (All, 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:pg2591:14:10
# text = All this, however, was untrue; the cat had no cousin, and had not been asked to be godmother.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	nsubj	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	untrue	untrue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
18	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	asked	ask	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
22	godmother	godmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | All |  |  |  |  | however, untrue *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | the cat | no cousin |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cousin=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **ask** *speech: ask* | past · perfect · passive | the cat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V» |
| 4 | **is a** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the cat *not said here* | godmother |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:** «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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