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title: So when evening came the Cat took her seat on a cushion at one end o… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: So when evening came the Cat took her seat on a cushion at one end of the room, and the Mice all went by in single file, each one making a profound salaam as it passed. Who acts: evening, Cat, Mice, one. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of t
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Cat and the Mice., sentence 12

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So when evening came the Cat took her seat on a cushion at one end of the room, and the Mice all went by in single file, each one making a profound salaam as it passed.

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**Who acts:** evening, Cat, Mice, one, salaam · **What happens:** come, take, go, make, pass · **To what, where:** seat, cushion, profound salaam

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Cat and the Mice.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (evening, Cat, Mice, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75000:6:12
# text = So when evening came the Cat took her seat on a cushion at one end of the room, and the Mice all went by in single file, each one making a profound salaam as it passed.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	cushion	cushion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
23	all	all	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	file	file	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
31	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	_
32	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	acl	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	profound	profound	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	salaam	salaam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
36	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | evening |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | past | the Cat | Cat's seat |  | a cushion | at one end of the room |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent seat=Theme on cushion=Destination |
| 3 | **go** | past | the Mice |  |  |  |  | by single file; all *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by file=Location |
| 4 | **make** | gerund | each one *not said here* | a profound salaam |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset salaam=Product |
| 5 | **pass** | past | salaam |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «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:** «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (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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