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title: “Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse” also ends in a universal calamity whic… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse” also ends in a universal calamity which seems to arise from a cause of no great importance. Who acts: Titty Mouse, universal calamity. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVI. Tatty Mouse and Tatty Mouse., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# English Fairy Tales, XVI. Tatty Mouse and Tatty Mouse., sentence 33

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“Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse” also ends in a universal calamity which seems to arise from a cause of no great importance.

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**Who acts:** Titty Mouse, universal calamity · **What happens:** end, seem, arise, cause · **To what, where:** universal calamity, cause, great importance

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVI. Tatty 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 (Titty Mouse, universal calamity), 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:pg7439:66:33
# text = “Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse” also ends in a universal calamity which seems to arise from a cause of no great importance.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Titty	titty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	Tatty	Tatty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	Mouse	Mouse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
8	also	also	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	ends	end	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	universal	universal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	calamity	calamity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	arise	arise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
23	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	importance	importance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **end** | present | Titty Mouse and Tatty |  |  | a universal calamity |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **seem** | present | a universal calamity |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **arise** | to-infinitive | a universal calamity *not said here* |  |  | a cause of no great importance |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **cause** |  |  | no great importance |  |  |  |  | nom cause «event transitive»: of=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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