--- title: So the cat and the fox went to the banquet, and when the cat saw the… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: So the cat and the fox went to the banquet, and when the cat saw the bacon, he put up his back and stuck out his tail, and cried, "Mee-oo, mee-oo!" with all his might. Who acts: cat. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Fox and the Cat, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/13/15/) [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/) / [Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/) / [The Fox and the Cat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/13/) / 15 # Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Fox and the Cat, sentence 15 So the cat and the fox went to the banquet, and when the cat saw the bacon, he put up his back and stuck out his tail, and cried, "Mee-oo, mee-oo!" with all his might. **Who acts:** cat · **What happens:** go, see, put up, stick out, cry · **To what, where:** banquet, bacon, back, tail, Mee oo This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Fox and the Cat. 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:pg29672:13:15 # text = So the cat and the fox went to the banquet, and when the cat saw the bacon, he put up his back and stuck out his tail, and cried, "Mee-oo, mee-oo!" with all his might. 1 So so ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 7 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 banquet banquet NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 bacon bacon NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 22 up up ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 stuck stick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 27 out out ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 " " PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 Mee Mee PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 36 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 oo oo NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 mee mee NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 40 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 oo oo NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ! ! PUNCT . _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ 44 with with SCONJ IN _ 47 mark _ _ 45 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 47 det:predet _ _ 46 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 47 nmod:poss _ _ 47 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | the cat and the fox | | | the banquet | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to banquet=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **see** | past | the cat | the bacon | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bacon=Stimulus | | 3 | **put up** | past | cat | cat's back | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent back=Goal | | 4 | **stick out** | past | cat *not said here* | cat's tail | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tail=Theme | | 5 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the cat and the fox *not said here* | Mee oo and mee oo | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:** «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/13/14/) - next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/13/16/) - ↑ back to [The Fox and the Cat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/13/)