--- title: This cat Whittington concealed in the garret, for fear she should be… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: This cat Whittington concealed in the garret, for fear she should be beat about by his mortal enemy the cook, and here she soon killed or frightened away the rats and mice, so that the poor boy could now sleep as sound as a top. Who acts: cat, mortal enemy, poor boy. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat, mortal enemy, poor boy), 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:pg503:29:20 # text = This cat Whittington concealed in the garret, for fear she should be beat about by his mortal enemy the cook, and here she soon killed or frightened away the rats and mice, so that the poor boy could now sleep as sound as a top. 1 This this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 det _ _ 2 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 Whittington Whittington PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 4 concealed conceal VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 garret garret NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 beat beat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 advcl _ _ 15 about about ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 by by ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 mortal mortal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 enemy enemy NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 cook cook NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 27 advmod _ _ 25 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 27 advmod _ _ 27 killed kill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 28 or or CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 frightened frighten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 amod _ _ 30 away away ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 36 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 43 mark _ _ 37 that that SCONJ IN _ 36 fixed _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 41 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 42 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 43 advmod _ _ 43 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 conj _ _ 44 as as ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ _ 46 as as ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **conceal** | past | this cat | | | the garret | | | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in garret=Location | | 2 | **beat about** | should · passive | Whittington's mortal enemy | cat | | | | for fear; the cook *obl:unmarked*; about *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme | | 3 | **kill** | past | cat | the frightened rats and mice | | here | | soon *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Theme | | 4 | **frighten away** | participle | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **sleep** | could | the poor boy | | | | now | as sound; as a top | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/29/19/) - next →: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/29/21/) - ↑ back to [The History of Whittington](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/29/)