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title: Now the peasant also had a cat, which had ceased catching mice, and… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the peasant also had a cat, which had ceased catching mice, and even playing tricks. Who acts: peasant. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 95

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Now the peasant also had a cat, which had ceased catching mice, and even playing tricks.

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**Who acts:** peasant · **What happens:** have, cease, catch, play · **To what, where:** cat, mice, tricks

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasant), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62509:3:95
# text = Now the peasant also had a cat, which had ceased catching mice, and even playing tricks.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	ceased	cease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	catching	catch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	xcomp	_	_
13	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	even	even	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
18	tricks	trick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the peasant | a cat |  |  | now |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Patient |
| 2 | **cease** | past · perfect · passive |  | a cat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **catch** | gerund |  | mice |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme |
| 4 | **play** | gerund | the peasant *not said here* | tricks |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=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:** «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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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