--- title: The Fox and the Cat — Grimms' Fairy Tales · full text with trees description: The Fox and the Cat, «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: It happened that the cat met the fox in a forest, and as she thought to herself: ‘He is clever and full of experience, and much esteemed in the world,’ she --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/42/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Grimms' Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/) / The Fox and the Cat # The Fox and the Cat The Fox and the Cat of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm: the whole text, 21 sentences and 294 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/42/1/) — It happened that the cat met the fox in a forest, and as she thought to herself: ‘He is clever and full of experience, and much esteemed in the world,’ she spoke to him in a friendly way. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/42/2/) — ‘Good day, dear Mr Fox, how are you? - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/42/3/) — How is all with you? - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/42/4/) — How are you getting on in these hard times?’ - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/42/5/) — The fox, full of all kinds of arrogance, looked at the cat from head to foot, and for a long time did not know whether he would give any answer or not. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/42/6/) — At last he said: ‘Oh, you wretched beard-cleaner, you piebald fool, you hungry mouse-hunter, what can you be thinking of? - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/42/7/) — Have you the cheek to ask how I am getting on? - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/42/8/) — What have you learnt? - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/42/9/) — How many arts do you understand?’ - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/42/10/) — ‘I understand but one,’ replied the cat, modestly. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/42/11/) — ‘What art is that?’ asked the fox. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/42/12/) — ‘When the hounds are following me, I can spring into a tree and save myself.’ - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/42/13/) — ‘Is that all?’ said the fox. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/42/14/) — ‘I am master of a hundred arts, and have into the bargain a sackful of cunning. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/42/15/) — You make me sorry for you; come with me, I will teach you how people get away from the hounds.’ - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/42/16/) — Just then came a hunter with four dogs. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/42/17/) — The cat sprang nimbly up a tree, and sat down at the top of it, where the branches and foliage quite concealed her. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/42/18/) — ‘Open your sack, Mr Fox, open your sack,’ cried the cat to him, but the dogs had already seized him, and were holding him fast. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/42/19/) — ‘Ah, Mr Fox,’ cried the cat. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/42/20/) — ‘You with your hundred arts are left in the lurch! - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/42/21/) — Had you been able to climb like me, you would not have lost your life.’ - ← previous: [The Three Languages](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/41/) - next →: [The Four Clever Brothers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/43/) - ↑ back to [Grimms' Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/)