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title: The cat got to know of this, and at once conceived the idea of seizi… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The cat got to know of this, and at once conceived the idea of seizing the bridegroom and making him render the necessary help. Who acts: cat, idea, bridegroom. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 134

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The cat got to know of this, and at once conceived the idea of seizing the bridegroom and making him render the necessary help.

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**Who acts:** cat, idea, bridegroom · **What happens:** get, know, conceive, seize, make, render · **To what, where:** idea, bridegroom, necessary help

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat, idea, bridegroom), 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:pg7128:16:134
# text = The cat got to know of this, and at once conceived the idea of seizing the bridegroom and making him render the necessary help.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	12	obl	_	_
12	conceived	conceive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	seizing	seize	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	conj	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	render	render	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | the cat |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **know** | to-infinitive | the cat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of this=Stimulus |
| 3 | **conceive** | past | the cat *not said here* | the idea |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Theme |
| 4 | **seize** | gerund | the idea *not said here* | the bridegroom |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridegroom=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | gerund | the idea *not said here* | bridegroom |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **render** | infinitive | bridegroom *not said here* | the necessary help |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent help=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:** «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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