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title: In the meantime in the hut the cat was busy weaving the linen and ta… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In the meantime in the hut the cat was busy weaving the linen and tangling the threads as it wove. Who acts: cat, linen. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch (28), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 57

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In the meantime in the hut the cat was busy weaving the linen and tangling the threads as it wove.

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**Who acts:** cat, linen · **What happens:** be, weave, tangle · **To what, where:** meantime, linen, threads

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch (28). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat, linen), 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:pg640:39:57
# text = In the meantime in the hut the cat was busy weaving the linen and tangling the threads as it wove.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	meantime	meantime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	weaving	weave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	linen	linen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	tangling	tangle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	threads	thread	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	wove	weave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the cat |  |  | the meantime in the hut |  | busy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **weave** | gerund | the cat *not said here* | the linen |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent linen=Product |
| 3 | **tangle** | gerund | the cat *not said here* | the threads |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **weave** | past | linen |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: 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 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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