--- title: Now the young wild cat had a lovely golden ball, so beautiful that y… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Now the young wild cat had a lovely golden ball, so beautiful that you could hardly look at it except through a piece of smoked glass, and he kept it hidden in the thick fur muff that went round his neck. Who acts: young wild cat, you, Neuislandischen, ball. 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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 (young wild cat, you, Neuislandischen, ball), 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:pg3282:28:75 # text = Now the young wild cat had a lovely golden ball, so beautiful that you could hardly look at it except through a piece of smoked glass, and he kept it hidden in the thick fur muff that went round his neck. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 lovely lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 parataxis _ _ 14 that that SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 16 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 19 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ _ 21 except except ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 through through ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 smoked smoke VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 amod _ _ 27 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 hidden hide VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 xcomp _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 36 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 37 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 muff muff NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 39 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 40 nsubj _ _ 40 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 acl:relcl _ _ 41 round round ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | the young wild cat | a lovely golden ball | | | now | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Patient | | 2 | **look** | could | you | | | | | except a piece of smoked glass; at ball; hardly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme | | 3 | **smoke** | participle | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **keep** | past | Neuislandischen | ball | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **hide** | participle | ball *not said here* | | | the thick fur muff | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in muff=Location | | 6 | **go** | past | the thick fur muff | | | Neuislandischen's neck | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme round neck=Initial\_Location | 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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/28/74/) - next →: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/28/76/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/28/)