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title: ‘Stop,’ cried Martin; ‘where are you dragging that poor cat?’ — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Stop,’ cried Martin; ‘where are you dragging that poor cat?’ Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 24

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‘Stop,’ cried Martin; ‘where are you dragging that poor cat?’

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** stop, cry, drag · **To what, where:** Martin

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg640:33:24
# text = ‘Stop,’ cried Martin; ‘where are you dragging that poor cat?’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Martin	Martin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
8	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	12	advmod	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	dragging	drag	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
13	that	that	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  | Martin |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent martin=Topic |
| 3 | **drag** | present · progressive | you |  |  |  |  | that poor cat | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |

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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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