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title: The kind Mouse agreed, but the Cat slunk under the town wall to the… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The kind Mouse agreed, but the Cat slunk under the town wall to the church, and ate up half of the pot of fat. Who acts: kind Mouse, Cat. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership, sentence 27

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The kind Mouse agreed, but the Cat slunk under the town wall to the church, and ate up half of the pot of fat.

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**Who acts:** kind Mouse, Cat · **What happens:** agree, slink, eat up · **To what, where:** town wall, half

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kind Mouse, Cat), 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:pg640:3:27
# text = The kind Mouse agreed, but the Cat slunk under the town wall to the church, and ate up half of the pot of fat.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	slunk	slink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	under	under	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	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 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | the kind Mouse |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **slink** | past | the Cat |  |  | the town wall |  | to the church | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to church=Destination |
| 3 | **eat up** | past | the kind Mouse *not said here* | half of the pot of fat |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Patient |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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