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title: The other cats were so astonished at the turn things had taken that… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The other cats were so astonished at the turn things had taken that they forgot to run away, and the young man and Schippeitaro between them killed several more before they thought of escaping. Who acts: other cats, cats, young man. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of 
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 204

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The other cats were so astonished at the turn things had taken that they forgot to run away, and the young man and Schippeitaro between them killed several more before they thought of escaping.

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**Who acts:** other cats, cats, young man · **What happens:** be, take, forget, not run away, kill, think · **To what, where:** turn things, several more

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other cats, cats, young man), 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:pg641:4:204
# text = The other cats were so astonished at the turn things had taken that they forgot to run away, and the young man and Schippeitaro between them killed several more before they thought of escaping.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	astonished	astonished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	away	away	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	Schippeitaro	Schippeitaro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	between	between	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nmod	_	_
28	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
29	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	28	obj	_	_
31	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
34	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
35	escaping	escape	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the other cats |  |  |  |  | astonished *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | past · perfect · passive |  | the turn things |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **forget** | past | cats *= cat* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **run away** | to-infinitive | cats *= cat* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **kill** | past | the young man between cats and Schippeitaro | several more |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme |
| 6 | **think** *speech: other* | past | cats *= cat* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **escape** | gerund | cats *= cat* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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