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title: Here a rat ran out almost under his feet, followed by another and an… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Here a rat ran out almost under his feet, followed by another and another; but quick as thought the cat was upon them and not one escaped her. Who acts: rat, cat, one. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 89

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Here a rat ran out almost under his feet, followed by another and another; but quick as thought the cat was upon them and not one escaped her.

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**Who acts:** rat, cat, one · **What happens:** run out, follow, think, be, escape · **To what, where:** feet, Cat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rat, cat, one), 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:pg3027:13:89
# text = Here a rat ran out almost under his feet, followed by another and another; but quick as thought the cat was upon them and not one escaped her.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	under	under	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	obl:agent	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	case	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	fixed	_	_
20	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	ccomp	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nsubj	_	_
29	escaped	escape	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
30	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run out** | past | a rat |  |  | here |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **follow** | participle |  | man's feet *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | the cat |  |  |  |  | upon feet *= foot* | tree rules |
| 5 | **escape** | past | one | Cat |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Initial\_Location |

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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:** «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.

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