--- title: Puss was so sadly terrified at the sight of a lion so near him, that… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: Puss was so sadly terrified at the sight of a lion so near him, that he immediately got into the gutter, not without abundance of trouble and danger, because of his boots, which were ill-suited for walking upon the tiles. Who acts: Puss, Ogre, boots. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perraul --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/10/89/) [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/) / 89 # The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"\], sentence 89 Puss was so sadly terrified at the sight of a lion so near him, that he immediately got into the gutter, not without abundance of trouble and danger, because of his boots, which were ill-suited for walking upon the tiles. **Who acts:** Puss, Ogre, boots · **What happens:** be, get, walk, sight · **To what, where:** sight, boots, gutter, tiles, lion 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 (Puss, Ogre, boots), 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:pg29021:10:89 # text = Puss was so sadly terrified at the sight of a lion so near him, that he immediately got into the gutter, not without abundance of trouble and danger, because of his boots, which were ill-suited for walking upon the tiles. 1 Puss puss NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 so so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 4 sadly sadly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 terrified terrified ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 13 near near ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 that that SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 immediately immediately ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 20 into into ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 gutter gutter NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 25 without without ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 abundance abundance NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 because because ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 35 case _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 32 fixed _ _ 34 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 boots boot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 41 nsubj _ _ 38 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 39 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 suited suited ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 parataxis _ _ 42 for for SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 43 walking walk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 41 advcl _ _ 44 upon upon ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 tiles tile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Puss | | | the sight of a lion | | near Ogre; sadly, terrified *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **get** | past | Ogre | Ogre's boots | | the gutter and abundance of trouble and danger | | immediately *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boot=Stimulus | | 3 | **is** | past | Ogre's boots | | | | | suited *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **walk** | gerund | Ogre's boots *not said here* | | | the tiles | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon tile=Trajectory | | 5 | **sight** | | | a lion | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/10/88/) - next →: [sentence 90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/10/90/) - ↑ back to [Her With a Sauce Robert'"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/10/)