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title: The Cat, quite overjoyed to see his project begin to succeed, marche… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: The Cat, quite overjoyed to see his project begin to succeed, marched on before, and meeting with some countrymen, who were mowing a meadow, he said to them: Who acts: Cat, countrymen. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"], with its depen
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"\], sentence 73

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The Cat, quite overjoyed to see his project begin to succeed, marched on before, and meeting with some countrymen, who were mowing a meadow, he said to them:

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**Who acts:** Cat, countrymen · **What happens:** overjoy, see, begin, succeed, march, meet · **To what, where:** Cat, project, meadow, countrymen · **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 (Cat, countrymen), 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:pg29021:10:73
# text = The Cat, quite overjoyed to see his project begin to succeed, marched on before, and meeting with some countrymen, who were mowing a meadow, he said to them:
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	overjoyed	overjoy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	project	project	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	begin	begin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	succeed	succeed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	marched	march	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	xcomp	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	before	before	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	meeting	meet	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
22	countrymen	countryman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	mowing	mow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	acl	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overjoy** | participle |  | the Cat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive |  | Cat's project |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer project=Stimulus |
| 3 | **begin** | present | the Cat |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **succeed** | to-infinitive | the Cat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **march** | participle | the Cat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | before *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **meet** | gerund | the Cat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with some countrymen | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with countryman=Co-Agent |
| 7 | **mow** | past · progressive | some countrymen | a meadow |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meadow=Patient |
| 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Cat |  | countrymen *= countryman* |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient |
| 9 | **project** |  | Cat |  |  |  |  |  | nom project «act 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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