--- title: The Cat, who had taken care to inform himself who this Ogre was, and… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: The Cat, who had taken care to inform himself who this Ogre was, and what he could do, asked to speak with him, saying, he could not pass so near his castle, without having the honour of paying his respects to him. Who acts: Cat, Ogre, honour. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by C --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/10/85/) [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/) / 85 # The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"\], sentence 85 The Cat, who had taken care to inform himself who this Ogre was, and what he could do, asked to speak with him, saying, he could not pass so near his castle, without having the honour of paying his respects to him. **Who acts:** Cat, Ogre, honour · **What happens:** take, inform, be, do, ask, speak · **To what, where:** care, Cat, castle, honour, respects, Ogre · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, Ogre, honour), 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:pg29021:10:85 # text = The Cat, who had taken care to inform himself who this Ogre was, and what he could do, asked to speak with him, saying, he could not pass so near his castle, without having the honour of paying his respects to him. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 5 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 acl:relcl _ _ 7 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 inform inform VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ _ 10 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 9 obj _ _ 11 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 12 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 13 det _ _ 13 Ogre Ogre PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 20 obj _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 22 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 31 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 ccomp _ _ 34 so so ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 35 near near ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 without without SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 40 having have VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 advcl _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 honour honour NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 43 of of SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 44 paying pay VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 42 acl _ _ 45 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 respects respects NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 obj _ _ 47 to to ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past · perfect | the Cat | care | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | | 2 | **inform** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | the Cat *not said here* | Cat | | | | | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient | | 3 | **be** | past | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **do** | could | Ogre | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the Cat | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **speak** *speech: other* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Cat *not said here* | | | | | with Ogre | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the Cat *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **not** **pass** | could | Ogre | | | Ogre's castle | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near castle=Location | | 9 | **have** | gerund | Ogre *not said here* | the honour | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honour=Patient | | 10 | **pay** | gerund | the honour *not said here* | Ogre's respects | Ogre | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respects=Asset | 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 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/10/84/) - next →: [sentence 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/10/86/) - ↑ back to [Her With a Sauce Robert'"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/10/)