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title: Tho' the Cat's master did not build very much upon what he said, he… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"\], sentence 50

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Tho' the Cat's master did not build very much upon what he said, he had however often seen him play a great many cunning tricks to catch rats and mice; as when he used to hang by the heels, or hide himself in the meal, and make as if he were dead; so that he did not altogether despair of his affording him some help in his miserable condition.

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**Who acts:** Tho, master · **What happens:** not build, say, see, play, catch, use · **To what, where:** Tho, great many cunning tricks, rats, master, meal, miserable condition · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tho, master), 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:pg29021:10:50
# text = Tho' the Cat's master did not build very much upon what he said, he had however often seen him play a great many cunning tricks to catch rats and mice; as when he used to hang by the heels, or hide himself in the meal, and make as if he were dead; so that he did not altogether despair of his affording him some help in his miserable condition.
1	Tho	Tho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	much	much	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	obl	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	however	however	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	often	often	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
25	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
26	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	cunning	cunning	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	tricks	trick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl	_	_
31	rats	rat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
36	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	38	advmod	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	hang	hang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	xcomp	_	_
41	by	by	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	heels	heel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	advcl	_	_
47	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	46	obj	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
54	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
55	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
56	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
57	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	cop	_	_
58	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	66	punct	_	_
60	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	66	case	_	_
61	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	60	fixed	_	_
62	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	66	nsubj	_	_
63	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	66	aux	_	_
64	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	65	advmod	_	_
65	altogether	altogether	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	66	amod	_	_
66	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
67	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	69	mark	_	_
68	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Gender=Masc|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	69	nsubj	_	_
69	affording	afford	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	66	acl	_	_
70	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	69	obj	_	_
71	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	72	det	_	_
72	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	69	obj	_	_
73	in	in	ADP	IN	_	76	case	_	_
74	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	76	nmod:poss	_	_
75	miserable	miserable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	76	amod	_	_
76	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	69	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
77	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **build** | past · do-support | Tho |  |  |  |  | so altogether despair | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | master |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **see** | past · perfect | master | Tho |  |  |  | however, often *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **play** | infinitive | Tho *not said here* | a great many cunning tricks |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Theme |
| 5 | **catch** | to-infinitive | Tho *not said here* | rats and mice |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Theme |
| 6 | **use** | past | master |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **hang** | to-infinitive | master *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the heels | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by heel=Location |
| 8 | **hide** | infinitive | master *not said here* | master |  | the meal |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in meal=Location |
| 9 | **make** | infinitive | Tho *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 10 | **is** | past | master |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 11 | **afford** | gerund | master | Tho |  | master's miserable condition |  |  | tree rules |
| 12 | **condition** |  | master |  |  |  |  |  | nom condition «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:** «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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