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title: But the next time the cat went out, the she-fox came again, and said… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But the next time the cat went out, the she-fox came again, and said, "Dear little cock, open the door!"--"No, little fox! Who acts: cat, she fox, Dear little cock. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 22

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But the next time the cat went out, the she-fox came again, and said, "Dear little cock, open the door!"--"No, little fox!

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**Who acts:** cat, she fox, Dear little cock · **What happens:** go out, come, say, open · **To what, where:** door · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat, she fox, Dear little cock), 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:pg29672:20:22
# text = But the next time the cat went out, the she-fox came again, and said, "Dear little cock, open the door!"--"No, little fox!
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	again	again	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	35	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
34	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | past | the cat |  |  |  | time |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | past | the she fox |  |  |  | again |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the cat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **open** *in a quote* | infinitive | Dear little cock | the door |  |  |  | little fox *obl* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme |

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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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