--- title: And when she had done, and was going to get up from her stool, she f… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: And when she had done, and was going to get up from her stool, she found sitting round her a whole circle of cats, black and white, tabby and tortoise- shell, who all cried with one voice: Who acts: cow, tortoise shell. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10, with its --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/10/65/) [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/) / [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/10/) / 65 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 65 And when she had done, and was going to get up from her stool, she found sitting round her a whole circle of cats, black and white, tabby and tortoise- shell, who all cried with one voice: **Who acts:** cow, tortoise shell · **What happens:** do, go, get up, find, sit, cry · **To what, where:** stool, whole circle This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cow, tortoise shell), 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:pg3027:10:65 # text = And when she had done, and was going to get up from her stool, she found sitting round her a whole circle of cats, black and white, tabby and tortoise- shell, who all cried with one voice: 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 2 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 up up ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 from from ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 stool stool NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 sitting sit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 xcomp _ _ 20 round round ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obl _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 circle circle NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl:unmarked _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 acl:relcl _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 tabby tabby NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 tortoise tortoise NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ _ 36 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 40 nsubj _ _ 39 all all ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 acl:relcl _ _ 41 with with ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 43 nummod _ _ 43 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past · perfect | cow | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **go** | past · progressive | cow *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **get up** | to-infinitive | cow *not said here* | | | cow's stool | | | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme from stool=Destination | | 4 | **find** | past | cow | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **sit** | gerund | cow *not said here* | a whole circle of cats and tabby and tortoise shell | | | | round cow | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | tortoise shell | | | | | with one voice; all *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with voice=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:** «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/10/64/) - next →: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/10/66/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/10/)