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title: It was conducted by two cats wearing black mantles and carrying swor… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It was conducted by two cats wearing black mantles and carrying swords, and a large party of cats followed, who brought in cages full of rats and mice. Who acts: two cats, large party. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 35

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It was conducted by two cats wearing black mantles and carrying swords, and a large party of cats followed, who brought in cages full of rats and mice.

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**Who acts:** two cats, large party · **What happens:** conduct, wear, carry, follow, bring · **To what, where:** figure, black mantles, swords, cages

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two cats, large party), 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:pg503:23:35
# text = It was conducted by two cats wearing black mantles and carrying swords, and a large party of cats followed, who brought in cages full of rats and mice.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	conducted	conduct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	wearing	wear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	mantles	mantle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	conj	_	_
12	swords	sword	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	cages	cage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	rats	rat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conduct** | past · passive | two cats | figure |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **wear** | gerund | two cats *not said here* | black mantles |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent mantle=Source |
| 3 | **carry** | gerund | two cats *not said here* | swords |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme |
| 4 | **follow** | past | a large party of cats |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **bring** | past |  | cages |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent cage=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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