--- title: The Cat, quite overjoyed to see his project begin to succeed, marche… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The Cat, quite overjoyed to see his project begin to succeed, marched on before, and, meeting with some countrymen, who were mowing a meadow, he said to them: Who acts: Cat, countrymen. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, with its dependency tree an --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/21/38/) [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 Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/21/) / 38 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, sentence 38 The Cat, quite overjoyed to see his project begin to succeed, marched on before, and, meeting with some countrymen, who were mowing a meadow, he said to them: **Who acts:** Cat, countrymen · **What happens:** overjoy, see, begin, succeed, march, meet · **To what, where:** Cat, project, meadow, countrymen · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Cat, countrymen), 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:pg503:21:38 # text = The Cat, quite overjoyed to see his project begin to succeed, marched on before, and, meeting with some countrymen, who were mowing a meadow, he said to them: 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 quite quite ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 overjoyed overjoy VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl:relcl _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 project project NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 begin begin VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 succeed succeed VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 marched march VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 xcomp _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 before before ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 meeting meet VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 23 det _ _ 23 countrymen countryman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 26 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 mowing mow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 acl _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 meadow meadow NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **overjoy** | participle | | the Cat *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | | cat's project | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer project=Stimulus | | 3 | **begin** | present | the Cat | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **succeed** | to-infinitive | the Cat *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **march** | participle | the Cat *not said here* | | | | | before *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **meet** | gerund | the Cat *not said here* | | | | | with some countrymen | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with countryman=Co-Agent | | 7 | **mow** | past · progressive | some countrymen | a meadow | | | | | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meadow=Patient | | 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | cat | | countrymen *= countryman* | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient | | 9 | **project** | | cat | | | | | | nom project «act transitive»: poss=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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/21/37/) - next →: [sentence 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/21/39/) - ↑ back to [The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/21/)