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title: And Tatty Mouse put her pudding into the pot to boil, — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And Tatty Mouse put her pudding into the pot to boil, Who acts: 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 8

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And Tatty Mouse put her pudding into the pot to boil,

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**Who acts:** Tatty · **What happens:** put, boil · **To what, where:** pudding, pot

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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 (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:pg7439:19:8
# text = And Tatty Mouse put her pudding into the pot to boil,
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	Tatty	Tatty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Mouse	Mouse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	pudding	pudding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	boil	boil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | Tatty | Tatty's pudding |  | the pot |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent pudding=Goal |
| 2 | **boil** | to-infinitive | Tatty *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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