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title: The Master Cat, who went always before, said the same words to all h… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: The Master Cat, who went always before, said the same words to all he met; and the King was astonished at the vast estates of my lord Marquis of Carabas. Who acts: Master Cat, Cat. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"], with its dependenc
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"\], sentence 83

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The Master Cat, who went always before, said the same words to all he met; and the King was astonished at the vast estates of my lord Marquis of Carabas.

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**Who acts:** Master Cat, Cat · **What happens:** go, say, meet, astonish · **To what, where:** same words, all, King, vast estates · **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 (Master Cat, Cat), 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:pg29021:10:83
# text = The Master Cat, who went always before, said the same words to all he met; and the King was astonished at the vast estates of my lord Marquis of Carabas.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Master	Master	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Cat	Cat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	8	advmod	_	_
8	before	before	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	nmod	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	astonished	astonish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	estates	estate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	Marquis	Marquis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Carabas	Carabas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	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 | **go** | past | the Master Cat |  |  |  |  | before *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Master Cat | the same words | all |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Topic to all=Recipient |
| 3 | **meet** | past | Cat |  |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **astonish** | past · passive |  | the King |  | the vast estates of my lord |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |

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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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