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title: The King, having seen the exploits of Miss Puss, and being informed… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The King, having seen the exploits of Miss Puss, and being informed that her kittens would stock the whole country, bargained with the captain and factor for the whole ship’s cargo, and then gave them ten times as much for the cat as all the rest amounted to. Who acts: King, kittens. A sentence of «
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 53

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The King, having seen the exploits of Miss Puss, and being informed that her kittens would stock the whole country, bargained with the captain and factor for the whole ship’s cargo, and then gave them ten times as much for the cat as all the rest amounted to.

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**Who acts:** King, kittens · **What happens:** see, inform, stock, bargain, give, amount · **To what, where:** exploits, whole country, much, kittens, rest · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Whittington. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, kittens), 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:pg503:29:53
# text = The King, having seen the exploits of Miss Puss, and being informed that her kittens would stock the whole country, bargained with the captain and factor for the whole ship’s cargo, and then gave them ten times as much for the cat as all the rest amounted to.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	aux	_	_
5	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	exploits	exploit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	Puss	Puss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	informed	inform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	kittens	kitten	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	stock	stock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	bargained	bargain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	factor	factor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	’s	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	cargo	cargo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	39	advmod	_	_
39	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
40	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	iobj	_	_
41	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	42	nummod	_	_
42	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl:unmarked	_	_
43	as	as	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	obj	_	_
45	for	for	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	_
48	as	as	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	51	det:predet	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	_
52	amounted	amount	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	51	acl	_	_
53	to	to	PART	TO	_	52	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | gerund · perfect | the King | the exploits of Miss |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer exploit=Stimulus |
| 2 | **inform** *speech: other* | gerund · passive | the King *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: clause=Topic |
| 3 | **stock** | would | Queen's kittens | the whole country |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Theme |
| 4 | **bargain** | participle |  | the whole country *not said here* |  |  |  | with the captain for the whole ship's cargo and factor | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with captain=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **give** | past | the King *not said here* | much | kittens *= kitten* |  | then; time | for the cat; as all rest | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent they=Recipient much=Theme for cat=Asset |
| 6 | **amount** | participle |  | all rest *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-1 «NP V PP.value»: agent=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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