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title: A rash and foolish young rabbit jumped into his bag, and Monsieur Pu… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: A rash and foolish young rabbit jumped into his bag, and Monsieur Puss, immediately drawing close the strings, took and killed him without pity. Who acts: rash. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, sentence 16

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A rash and foolish young rabbit jumped into his bag, and Monsieur Puss, immediately drawing close the strings, took and killed him without pity.

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**Who acts:** rash · **What happens:** jump, draw, close, take, kill · **To what, where:** Monsieur, bag, strings, Scarce

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rash), 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:pg503:21:16
# text = A rash and foolish young rabbit jumped into his bag, and Monsieur Puss, immediately drawing close the strings, took and killed him without pity.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rash	rash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Monsieur	Monsieur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	Puss	Puss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	drawing	draw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
18	close	close	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	strings	string	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	without	without	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump** | past | a rash and foolish young rabbit | Monsieur |  | Scarce's bag |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into bag=Destination |
| 2 | **draw** | gerund | a rash and foolish young rabbit *not said here* |  |  |  |  | immediately *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **close** | infinitive | a rash and foolish young rabbit *not said here* | the strings |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent string=Patient |
| 4 | **take** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **kill** | past |  | Scarce |  |  |  | without pity | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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