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title: The cat sprang nimbly up a tree, and sat down at the top of it, wher… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The cat sprang nimbly up a tree, and sat down at the top of it, where the branches and foliage quite concealed her. Who acts: cat, branches. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Fox and the Cat, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fox and the Cat, sentence 17

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The cat sprang nimbly up a tree, and sat down at the top of it, where the branches and foliage quite concealed her.

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**Who acts:** cat, branches · **What happens:** spring, sit down, conceal · **To what, where:** tree, top, cat

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Fox and the Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat, branches), 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:pg2591:42:17
# text = The cat sprang nimbly up a tree, and sat down at the top of it, where the branches and foliage quite concealed her.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	nimbly	nimbly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	down	down	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	foliage	foliage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	concealed	conceal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spring** | past | the cat |  |  | a tree |  | nimbly *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up tree=Trajectory |
| 2 | **sit down** | past |  |  |  | the top of top |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at top=Location |
| 3 | **conceal** | past | the branches and foliage | cat |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |

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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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