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title: The king, having seen the exploits of Mrs. Puss, and being informed… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The king, having seen the exploits of Mrs. Puss, and being informed that her kittens would stock the whole country, and keep it free from rats, bargained with the captain for the whole ship's cargo, and then gave him ten times as much for the cat as all the rest amounted to. Who acts: king, kittens.
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# English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 77

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The king, having seen the exploits of Mrs. Puss, and being informed that her kittens would stock the whole country, and keep it free from rats, bargained with the captain for the whole ship's cargo, and then gave him ten times as much for the cat as all the rest amounted to.

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**Who acts:** king, kittens · **What happens:** see, inform, stock, keep, bargain, give · **To what, where:** exploits, whole country, country, rats, much, captain · **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 (king, kittens), 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:pg7439:37:77
# text = The king, having seen the exploits of Mrs. Puss, and being informed that her kittens would stock the whole country, and keep it free from rats, bargained with the captain for the whole ship's cargo, and then gave him ten times as much for the cat as all the rest amounted to.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	aux	_	_
5	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	exploits	exploit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	Puss	Puss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	informed	inform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	kittens	kitten	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	stock	stock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	rats	rat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	bargained	bargain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	's	's	PART	POS	_	38	case	_	_
40	cargo	cargo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	44	advmod	_	_
44	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
45	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	iobj	_	_
46	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	47	nummod	_	_
47	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obl:unmarked	_	_
48	as	as	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
49	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	obj	_	_
50	for	for	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	_
53	as	as	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
54	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	56	det:predet	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	_
57	amounted	amount	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	56	acl	_	_
58	to	to	PART	TO	_	57	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | gerund · perfect | the king | the exploits of Mrs. |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer exploit=Stimulus |
| 2 | **inform** *speech: other* | gerund · passive | the king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: clause=Topic |
| 3 | **stock** | would | queen's kittens | the whole country |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Theme |
| 4 | **keep** | infinitive | the king *not said here* | country |  | rats |  | free *property* | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer it=Beneficiary from rat=Eventuality |
| 5 | **bargain** | participle |  | rats *not said here* |  |  |  | with the captain for the whole ship's cargo | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with captain=Co-Agent |
| 6 | **give** | past | the king *not said here* | much | captain |  | then; time | for the cat; as all rest | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient much=Theme for cat=Asset |
| 7 | **amount** | participle |  | all rest *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-1 «NP V PP.value»: 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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