--- title: There was once upon a time a cat and a cock, who agreed to live toge… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: There was once upon a time a cat and a cock, who agreed to live together, so they built them a hut on an ash-heap, and the cock kept house while the cat went foraging for sausages. Who acts: cat. 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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:pg29672:20:1 # text = There was once upon a time a cat and a cock, who agreed to live together, so they built them a hut on an ash-heap, and the cock kept house while the cat went foraging for sausages. 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 2 advmod _ _ 4 upon upon ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 cock cock NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 agreed agree VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 together together ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 built build VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 22 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 hut hut NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 on on ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 26 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 27 ash ash NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 heap heap NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 cock cock NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 34 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ _ 35 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 36 while while SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 advcl _ _ 40 foraging forage VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 39 xcomp _ _ 41 for for ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 sausages sausage NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | | | | there | time | once *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | a cat and a cock | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **live together** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a cat and a cock *not said here* | | | | | together *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **build** | past | cat | them *= they* | | a ash heap | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset they=Beneficiary hut=Product | | 5 | **keep** | participle · passive | | the cock | | | | | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme house=Attribute | | 6 | **go** | past | the cat | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **forage** | gerund | the cat *not said here* | | | | | for sausages | vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for sausage=Theme | 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: [The Tsar and the Angel, 193](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/19/193/) - next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/20/2/) - ↑ back to [The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/20/)