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title: Titty Mouse leased an ear of corn, and Tatty Mouse leased an ear of… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Titty Mouse leased an ear of corn, and Tatty Mouse leased an ear of corn, Who acts: Titty, Tatty. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse, sentence 4

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Titty Mouse leased an ear of corn, and Tatty Mouse leased an ear of corn,

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**Who acts:** Titty, Tatty · **What happens:** lease · **To what, where:** ear

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Titty, Tatty), 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:pg7439:19:4
# text = Titty Mouse leased an ear of corn, and Tatty Mouse leased an ear of corn,
1	Titty	titty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Mouse	Mouse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	leased	lease	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	Tatty	Tatty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	Mouse	Mouse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	leased	lease	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	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 | **lease** | past | Titty | a ear of corn |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme |
| 2 | **lease** | past | Tatty | a ear of corn |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=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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