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title: During the cat’s absence the mouse cleaned the house, and put it in… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: During the cat’s absence the mouse cleaned the house, and put it in order, but the greedy cat entirely emptied the pot of fat. Who acts: mouse, greedy cat, cat. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Cat and Mouse in Partnership, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Cat and Mouse in Partnership, sentence 35

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During the cat’s absence the mouse cleaned the house, and put it in order, but the greedy cat entirely emptied the pot of fat.

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**Who acts:** mouse, greedy cat, cat · **What happens:** clean, put, empty, absent · **To what, where:** house, order, pot

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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 (mouse, greedy cat, 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:pg2591:14:35
# text = During the cat’s absence the mouse cleaned the house, and put it in order, but the greedy cat entirely emptied the pot of fat.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	absence	absence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	cleaned	clean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	emptied	empty	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clean** | past | the mouse | the house |  |  | during the cat's absence |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent house=Patient |
| 2 | **put** | infinitive | the mouse *not said here* | house |  | order |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in order=Destination |
| 3 | **empty** | past | the greedy cat | the pot of fat |  |  |  | entirely *property* | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent pot=Source |
| 4 | **absent** |  | the cat |  |  |  |  |  | nom absence «state transitive»: poss=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:** «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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