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title: But the cat remained in the midst of all the good things and ate awa… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But the cat remained in the midst of all the good things and ate away at the bacon, and the little fox gobbled up the honey, and they ate and ate till they couldn't eat any more, and then they both went home licking their paws. Who acts: cat, little fox, things. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales an
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Fox and the Cat, sentence 25

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But the cat remained in the midst of all the good things and ate away at the bacon, and the little fox gobbled up the honey, and they ate and ate till they couldn't eat any more, and then they both went home licking their paws.

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**Who acts:** cat, little fox, things · **What happens:** remain, eat away, gobble up, eat, not eat, go · **To what, where:** midst, bacon, honey, paws

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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, little fox, things), 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:pg29672:13:25
# text = But the cat remained in the midst of all the good things and ate away at the bacon, and the little fox gobbled up the honey, and they ate and ate till they couldn't eat any more, and then they both went home licking their paws.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	away	away	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	bacon	bacon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	gobbled	gobble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
34	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
35	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
36	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
38	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	advcl	_	_
39	any	any	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
43	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	46	advmod	_	_
44	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
45	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	46	advmod	_	_
46	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
47	home	home	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
48	licking	lick	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	46	xcomp	_	_
49	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	paws	paw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | participle | the cat |  |  | the midst of all good things |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in midst=Location |
| 2 | **eat away** | past | the cat *not said here* |  |  | the bacon |  | away *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **gobble up** | participle | the little fox | the honey |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent honey=Theme |
| 4 | **eat** | past | things *= thing* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **eat** | past | things *= thing* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **not** **eat** | could | things *= thing* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **go** | past | things *= thing* |  |  |  | then | home *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 8 | **lick** | gerund | things *= thing* *not said here* | things's paws |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent paw=Source |

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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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