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title: The cat runs quickly up the stair, And lets her tail fly here and th… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The cat runs quickly up the stair, And lets her tail fly here and there, Until she comes to the parlour door. Who acts: cat, tail. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Second Story, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Second Story, sentence 13

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The cat runs quickly up the stair, And lets her tail fly here and there, Until she comes to the parlour door.

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**Who acts:** cat, tail · **What happens:** run, let, fly, come · **To what, where:** stair, parlour door

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Second Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat, tail), 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:pg2591:55:13
# text = The cat runs quickly up the stair, And lets her tail fly here and there, Until she comes to the parlour door.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	stair	stair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
14	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	Until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	parlour	parlour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | present | the cat |  |  | the stair |  | quickly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up stair=Trajectory |
| 2 | **let** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fly** | infinitive | Mrs's tail |  |  | here |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | present | tail |  |  | the parlour door |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial\_Location |

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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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