--- title: However, when the captain stroked the cat and called: “Pussy, pussy,… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: However, when the captain stroked the cat and called: “Pussy, pussy,” the queen also touched her and cried: “Putty, putty,” for she had not learned English. Who acts: captain, queen. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat, with its dependency tree and the pragm --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/37/75/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / [Whittington and His Cat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/37/) / 75 # English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 75 However, when the captain stroked the cat and called: “Pussy, pussy,” the queen also touched her and cried: “Putty, putty,” for she had not learned English. **Who acts:** captain, queen · **What happens:** stroke, call, touch, cry, not learn · **To what, where:** cat, creature, Putty, English · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (captain, queen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7439:37:75 # text = However, when the captain stroked the cat and called: “Pussy, pussy,” the queen also touched her and cried: “Putty, putty,” for she had not learned English. 1 However however ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 captain captain NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 stroked stroke VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 12 “ " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 Pussy pussy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 pussy pussy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ” " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 also also ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 touched touch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 22 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 : : PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 26 “ " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 Putty putty NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 putty putty NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ” " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 32 for for SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 33 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 34 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 36 learned learn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 24 advcl _ _ 37 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stroke** | past | the captain | the cat | | | | however *property* | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Experiencer | | 2 | **call** | past | the captain *not said here* | | | | | pussy *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **touch** | past | the queen | creature | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Co-Theme | | 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the queen *not said here* | Putty and putty | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **learn** | past · perfect | queen | English | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent english=Topic | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/37/74/) - next →: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/37/76/) - ↑ back to [Whittington and His Cat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/37/)