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title: “Fetch your cat then, my lad,” said Mr. Fitzwarren, “and let her go.” — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Fetch your cat then, my lad,” said Mr. Fitzwarren, “and let her go.” Who acts: Fitzwarren, Mr.. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 40

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“Fetch your cat then, my lad,” said Mr. Fitzwarren, “and let her go.”

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**Who acts:** Fitzwarren, Mr. · **What happens:** fetch, say, let, go · **To what, where:** cat, Mr. · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Fitzwarren, Mr.), 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:pg7439:37:40
# text = “Fetch your cat then, my lad,” said Mr. Fitzwarren, “and let her go.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:desc	_	_
13	Fitzwarren	Fitzwarren	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fetch** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | your cat |  |  | then | my lad *vocative* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Fitzwarren  Mr. |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | Mr. |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | Mr. *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP 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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