--- title: Mew," said the cat again; and had Rudy been still a child, he would… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Mew," said the cat again; and had Rudy been still a child, he would have understood this language, and known that the cat wished to tell him there was no one at home. Who acts: Mew, Rudy, cat, one. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette, with its depend --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/55/68/) [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/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [IV. Babette](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/55/) / 68 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 68 Mew," said the cat again; and had Rudy been still a child, he would have understood this language, and known that the cat wished to tell him there was no one at home. **Who acts:** Mew, Rudy, cat, one · **What happens:** say, have, be, understand, know, wish · **To what, where:** cat, Rudy, child, language · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mew, Rudy, cat, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:55:68 # text = Mew," said the cat again; and had Rudy been still a child, he would have understood this language, and known that the cat wished to tell him there was no one at home. 1 Mew mew NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 " " PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ 4 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 again again ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 11 Rudy Rudy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 15 cop _ _ 13 still still ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 20 aux _ _ 20 understood understand VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 21 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 22 det _ _ 22 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 26 that that SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 wished wish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 ccomp _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 32 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 iobj _ _ 33 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 34 expl _ _ 34 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 ccomp _ _ 35 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 36 det _ _ 36 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 37 at at ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Mew | the cat | | | again | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cat=Topic | | 2 | **have** *in a quote* | past | | Rudy | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rudy=Patient | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | participle | | a child | | | still | | tree rules | | 4 | **understand** *in a quote* | would · perfect | Rudy | this language | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer language=Stimulus | | 5 | **know** *in a quote* | participle | Mew *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 6 | **wish** *in a quote* | past | the cat | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | the cat *not said here* | | Rudy | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 8 | **be** *in a quote* | past | no one at home | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **Text:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. 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