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title: Now the cunning old Cat had arranged this little plan very carefully… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the cunning old Cat had arranged this little plan very carefully with an object of her own; for, as soon as the procession had all passed by with the exception of one little Mouse, she suddenly seized the last Mouse in her claws without anybody else noticing what had happened, and devoured it at
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Cat and the Mice., sentence 13

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Now the cunning old Cat had arranged this little plan very carefully with an object of her own; for, as soon as the procession had all passed by with the exception of one little Mouse, she suddenly seized the last Mouse in her claws without anybody else noticing what had happened, and devoured it at her leisure.

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**Who acts:** cunning old Cat, Cat · **What happens:** arrange, pass, seize, notice, happen, devour · **To what, where:** little plan, last Mouse, claws, plan, leisure, one little Mouse · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (cunning old Cat, Cat), 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:pg75000:6:13
# text = Now the cunning old Cat had arranged this little plan very carefully with an object of her own; for, as soon as the procession had all passed by with the exception of one little Mouse, she suddenly seized the last Mouse in her claws without anybody else noticing what had happened, and devoured it at her leisure.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	cunning	cunning	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	arranged	arrange	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	as	as	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	obl	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	procession	procession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	all	all	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	exception	exception	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
36	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	parataxis	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	claws	claw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	_
48	without	without	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	anybody	anybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	41	obl	_	_
50	else	else	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
51	noticing	notice	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	49	acl	_	_
52	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	54	nsubj	_	_
53	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
54	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	51	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
57	devoured	devour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	conj	_	_
58	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	obj	_	_
59	at	at	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	61	nmod:poss	_	_
61	leisure	leisure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrange** | past · perfect | the cunning old Cat | this little plan |  |  | now | with a object of Cat's own | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent plan=Patient with object=Instrument |
| 2 | **pass** | past · perfect | the cunning old Cat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as the procession; by the exception of one little Mouse; all *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by exception=Location |
| 3 | **seize** | past | Cat | the last Mouse |  | Cat's claws |  | without anybody; suddenly *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme |
| 4 | **notice** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **happen** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | what *nsubj* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **devour** | past | Cat *not said here* | plan |  | Cat's leisure |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 7 | **except** |  |  | one little Mouse |  |  |  |  | nom exception «cognition 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:** «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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