--- title: When the Cat had what he asked for, he booted himself very gallantly… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: When the Cat had what he asked for, he booted himself very gallantly; and putting his bag about his neck, he held the strings of it in his two fore paws, and went into a warren where was great abundance of rabbits. Who acts: Cat. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perraul --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/10/51/) [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/) / [The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/) / [Her With a Sauce Robert'"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/10/) / 51 # The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"\], sentence 51 When the Cat had what he asked for, he booted himself very gallantly; and putting his bag about his neck, he held the strings of it in his two fore paws, and went into a warren where was great abundance of rabbits. **Who acts:** Cat · **What happens:** have, ask, boot, put, hold, go · **To what, where:** Cat, bag, strings, two fore paws, warren, great abundance 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 (Cat), 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:pg29021:10:51 # text = When the Cat had what he asked for, he booted himself very gallantly; and putting his bag about his neck, he held the strings of it in his two fore paws, and went into a warren where was great abundance of rabbits. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 5 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 obj _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 booted boot VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 12 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 11 obj _ _ 13 very very ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 gallantly gallantly ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 putting put VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 about about ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 strings string NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nmod _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 31 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 32 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 34 nummod _ _ 33 fore fore ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 paws paw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 38 into into ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 warren warren NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 41 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 44 advmod _ _ 42 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 cop _ _ 43 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 abundance abundance NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 rabbits rabbit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | the Cat | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Cat | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **boot** | past | Cat | Cat | | | | gallantly *property* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | | 4 | **put** | gerund | the Cat *not said here* | Cat's bag | | | | about Cat's neck | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bag=Theme about neck=Destination | | 5 | **hold** | past | Cat | the strings of bag | | Cat's two fore paws | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent string=Theme in paw=Location | | 6 | **go** | past | Cat *not said here* | | | a warren | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into warren=Initial\_Location | | 7 | **is a** | past | | great abundance | | | | of rabbits | tree rules | 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/10/50/) - next →: [sentence 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/10/52/) - ↑ back to [Her With a Sauce Robert'"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/10/)