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title: And the cat came in, holding up the two neat little feet in their si… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And the cat came in, holding up the two neat little feet in their silver slippers. Who acts: cat. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 46

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And the cat came in, holding up the two neat little feet in their silver slippers.

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**Who acts:** cat · **What happens:** come in, hold up · **To what, where:** two neat little feet, silver slippers

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28. 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.

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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:pg3282:28:46
# text = And the cat came in, holding up the two neat little feet in their silver slippers.
1	And	and	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	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
11	neat	neat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	slippers	slipper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come in** | past | the cat |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hold up** | gerund | the cat *not said here* | the two neat little feet |  | feet's silver slippers |  |  | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot foot=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:** «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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