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title: While they were drawing the poor Marquis out of the river, the Cat c… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: While they were drawing the poor Marquis out of the river, the Cat came up to the coach and told the King that, while his master was washing, there came by some rogues, who went off with his clothes, though he had cried out: “Thieves! thieves!” several times, as loud as he could. Who acts: guards, C
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, sentence 33

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While they were drawing the poor Marquis out of the river, the Cat came up to the coach and told the King that, while his master was washing, there came by some rogues, who went off with his clothes, though he had cried out: “Thieves! thieves!” several times, as loud as he could.

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**Who acts:** guards, Cat, master, rogues · **What happens:** draw, come up, tell, wash, come, go off · **To what, where:** poor Marquis, river, coach, that, King · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (guards, Cat, master, rogues), 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:pg503:21:33
# text = While they were drawing the poor Marquis out of the river, the Cat came up to the coach and told the King that, while his master was washing, there came by some rogues, who went off with his clothes, though he had cried out: “Thieves! thieves!” several times, as loud as he could.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	drawing	draw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Marquis	Marquis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	up	up	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	iobj	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	washing	wash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	33	expl	_	_
33	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
34	by	by	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	36	det	_	_
36	rogues	rogue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj	_	_
39	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	acl:relcl	_	_
40	off	off	ADP	RP	_	39	compound:prt	_	_
41	with	with	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	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
45	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
46	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
47	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
48	cried	cry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	33	conj	_	_
49	out	out	ADP	RP	_	48	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	54	punct	_	_
51	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	52	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	Thieves	thief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	52	punct	_	_
54	thieves	thief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	54	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	54	punct	_	_
57	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
60	as	as	ADV	RB	_	61	advmod	_	_
61	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	conj	_	_
62	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	64	mark	_	_
63	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	64	nsubj	_	_
64	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	61	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past · progressive | guards *= guard* | the poor Marquis |  | the river |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent marquis=Theme out river=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **come up** | past | the Cat |  |  | the coach |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to coach=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the Cat *not said here* | that | the King |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent king=Recipient that=Topic |
| 4 | **wash** | past · progressive | King's master |  |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **come** | past |  |  |  | there | time | by some rogues | tree rules |
| 6 | **go off** | past | some rogues |  |  |  |  | with King's clothes | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **cry out** *speech: express* | past · perfect | cat |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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