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title: “To my Lord Marquis of Carabas,” answered they altogether, for the C… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “To my Lord Marquis of Carabas,” answered they altogether, for the Cat’s threats had made them terribly afraid. 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 clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, sentence 41

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“To my Lord Marquis of Carabas,” answered they altogether, for the Cat’s threats had made them terribly afraid.

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**What happens:** answer, make · **To what, where:** people, Lord Marquis, threats

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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: 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:pg503:21:41
# text = “To my Lord Marquis of Carabas,” answered they altogether, for the Cat’s threats had made them terribly afraid.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	To	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Marquis	Marquis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Carabas	Carabas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
10	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	threats	threat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	parataxis	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	terribly	terribly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past |  | people | my Lord Marquis of Carabas |  |  | altogether *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality |
| 2 | **make** | past · perfect · passive |  | the Cat's threats |  |  |  | afraid *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary they=Product |

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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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