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title: The Mouse had a good cleaning out while the Cat was gone, and made t… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Mouse had a good cleaning out while the Cat was gone, and made the house tidy; but the greedy Cat ate the fat every bit up. Who acts: Mouse, Cat, greedy 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
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership, sentence 42

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The Mouse had a good cleaning out while the Cat was gone, and made the house tidy; but the greedy Cat ate the fat every bit up.

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**Who acts:** Mouse, Cat, greedy Cat · **What happens:** have out, be, make, eat up · **To what, where:** good cleaning, house tidy, fat

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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 (Mouse, Cat, greedy 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:pg640:3:42
# text = The Mouse had a good cleaning out while the Cat was gone, and made the house tidy; but the greedy Cat ate the fat every bit up.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	cleaning	cleaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
8	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	tidy	tidy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
28	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
29	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have out** | past | the Mouse | a good cleaning |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cleaning=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | the Cat |  |  |  |  | gone *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | past | the Mouse *not said here* | the house tidy |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tidy=Product |
| 4 | **eat up** | past | the greedy Cat | the fat |  |  |  | every bit *obl:unmarked* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fat=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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