--- title: “I don’t care about playing catch, it does not amuse me,” answered t… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “I don’t care about playing catch, it does not amuse me,” answered the cat, who was as cross as ever; for no cat, even to this day, ever forgets an injury done to him. Who acts: cat, catch, day. 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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 (cat, catch, day), 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:pg3282:29:4 # text = “I don’t care about playing catch, it does not amuse me,” answered the cat, who was as cross as ever; for no cat, even to this day, ever forgets an injury done to him. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 4 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 care care VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 ccomp _ _ 6 about about SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 playing play VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 8 catch catch NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 amuse amuse VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 14 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 17 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 as as ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 cross cross ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 conj _ _ 25 as as ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 30 det _ _ 30 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 even even ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 35 det _ _ 35 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 38 advmod _ _ 38 forgets forget VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl:relcl _ _ 39 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 injury injury NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 41 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 acl _ _ 42 to to ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **care** *in a quote* | present · do-support | the cat *= cat* | | | | | | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **play** *in a quote* | gerund | the cat *= cat* *not said here* | catch | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent catch=Theme | | 3 | **not** **amuse** *in a quote* | present · do-support | catch | the cat *= cat* | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | | 4 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the cat | | | | day | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | past | the cat | | | | | cross *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **forget** | present | this day *not said here* | a injury | | | ever | | tree rules | | 7 | **do** | participle | | a injury *not said here* | cat | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/29/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/29/5/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/29/)