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title: Puss, who heard the noise of his Majesty’s coach running over the dr… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Puss, who heard the noise of his Majesty’s coach running over the draw-bridge, ran out, and said to the King: Who acts: Puss, coach. 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 60

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Puss, who heard the noise of his Majesty’s coach running over the draw-bridge, ran out, and said to the King:

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**Who acts:** Puss, coach · **What happens:** hear, run, run out, say, noise · **To what, where:** noise, draw bridge, 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 (Puss, coach), 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:pg503:21:60
# text = Puss, who heard the noise of his Majesty’s coach running over the draw-bridge, ran out, and said to the King:
1	Puss	Puss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
9	Majesty	Majesty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
12	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	draw	draw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | Puss | the noise of puss's coach |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus |
| 2 | **run** | gerund | puss's coach *not said here* |  |  | the draw bridge |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over bridge=Trajectory |
| 3 | **run out** | past | Puss *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Puss *not said here* |  | the King |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient |
| 5 | **noise** |  | puss's coach |  |  |  |  |  | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=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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