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title: Dick hid his cat in the garret, and always took care to carry a part… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Dick hid his cat in the garret, and always took care to carry a part of his dinner to her; and in a short time he had no more trouble with the rats and mice, but slept quite sound every night. Who acts: Dick. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat, with its dep
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# English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 34

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Dick hid his cat in the garret, and always took care to carry a part of his dinner to her; and in a short time he had no more trouble with the rats and mice, but slept quite sound every night.

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**Who acts:** Dick · **What happens:** hide, take, carry, have, sleep · **To what, where:** cat, garret, care, part, girl, more trouble

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dick), 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:pg7439:37:34
# text = Dick hid his cat in the garret, and always took care to carry a part of his dinner to her; and in a short time he had no more trouble with the rats and mice, but slept quite sound every night.
1	Dick	Dick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	garret	garret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	11	advmod	_	_
11	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
30	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	32	det	_	_
31	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	32	amod	_	_
32	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	rats	rat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
41	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	44	det	_	_
44	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | past | Dick | Dick's cat |  | the garret |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cat=Patient in garret=Location |
| 2 | **take** | past | Dick *not said here* | care |  |  |  | always *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 3 | **carry** | to-infinitive | Dick *not said here* | a part of Dick's dinner | girl |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent part=Theme to she=Destination |
| 4 | **have** | past | Dick | no more trouble |  |  | time | with the rats and mice | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Patient |
| 5 | **sleep** | past |  | sound |  |  | night |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=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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