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title: The Mouse went to visit the Cat, and found her sitting behind the ha… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Mouse went to visit the Cat, and found her sitting behind the hall door, spinning. Who acts: Mouse, Cat. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mouse and Mouser, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Mouse and Mouser, sentence 1

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The Mouse went to visit the Cat, and found her sitting behind the hall door, spinning.

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**Who acts:** Mouse, Cat · **What happens:** go, visit, find, sit, spin · **To what, where:** Cat, hall door

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mouse and Mouser. 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), 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:pg7439:14:1
# text = The Mouse went to visit the Cat, and found her sitting behind the hall door, spinning.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	xcomp	_	_
13	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	spinning	spin	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the Mouse |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **visit** | to-infinitive | the Mouse *not said here* | the Cat |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **find** | past | the Mouse *not said here* | Cat |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent she=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 4 | **sit** | gerund | Cat *not said here* |  |  | the hall door |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind door=Location |
| 5 | **spin** | gerund | Cat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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