--- title: Well, it all happened just as the cat intended it should, and when t… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Well, it all happened just as the cat intended it should, and when the ball dropped on the ground the cat ran down the tree like lightning, and, picking it up, tucked it away in the snake’s skin round his neck. Who acts: it, cat, ball. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown F --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/29/30/) [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 Brown Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/) / [The Brown Fairy Book, part 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/29/) / 30 # The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 30 Well, it all happened just as the cat intended it should, and when the ball dropped on the ground the cat ran down the tree like lightning, and, picking it up, tucked it away in the snake’s skin round his neck. **Who acts:** it, cat, ball · **What happens:** happen, intend, drop, run down, pick up, tuck away · **To what, where:** cat, ground, tree, ball, skin This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, cat, 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:pg3282:29:30 # text = Well, it all happened just as the cat intended it should, and when the ball dropped on the ground the cat ran down the tree like lightning, and, picking it up, tucked it away in the snake’s skin round his neck. 1 Well well INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 all all ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 just just ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 7 as as SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 intended intend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 15 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 24 advmod _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 18 dropped drop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 24 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 25 down down ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 28 like like ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 lightning lightning NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 picking pick VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 37 ccomp _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 up up ADP RP _ 33 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 37 tucked tuck VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 away away ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ’s 's PART POS _ 42 case _ _ 44 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 45 round round ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 47 nmod:poss _ _ 47 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | past | it | | | | | all *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **intend** | past | the cat | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **drop** | participle | the ball *not said here* | the cat | | the ground | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cat=Theme on ground=Destination | | 4 | **run down** | past | the ball | the tree | | | | like lightning | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location tree=Theme | | 5 | **pick up** | gerund | | ball | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 6 | **tuck away** | past | | ball | | the snake's skin round cat's neck | | away *property* | tree rules | 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 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/29/29/) - next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/29/31/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/29/)