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title: But when the cat saw the boar's bristles sticking out from behind th… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But when the cat saw the boar's bristles sticking out from behind the bushes he thought it was a mouse, and put up his back again and cried, "Ft! ft! ft! Who acts: cat, bristles, boar. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Fox and the Cat, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Fox and the Cat, sentence 19

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But when the cat saw the boar's bristles sticking out from behind the bushes he thought it was a mouse, and put up his back again and cried, "Ft! ft! ft!

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**Who acts:** cat, bristles, boar · **What happens:** see, stick out, think, be, put up, cry · **To what, where:** bristles, bushes, mouse, back, Ft · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, bristles, boar), 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:pg29672:13:19
# text = But when the cat saw the boar's bristles sticking out from behind the bushes he thought it was a mouse, and put up his back again and cried, "Ft! ft! ft!
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	boar	boar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	bristles	bristle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
10	sticking	stick	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	again	again	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	Ft	ft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
35	ft	ft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
37	ft	ft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the cat | the boar's bristles |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stick out** | gerund | the boar's bristles *not said here* |  |  | the bushes |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | cat | the bushes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot bush=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past | boar | a mouse |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **put up** | participle |  | cat's back |  |  | again |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  | Ft |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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:** «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.

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