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title: And so twice every day, she seized the last Mouse of the series, and… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: And so twice every day, she seized the last Mouse of the series, and for a long time lived very comfortably without any trouble at all in catching her Mice, and without any of the Mice realising what was happening. Who acts: Cat, any. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Traver
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Cat and the Mice., sentence 14

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And so twice every day, she seized the last Mouse of the series, and for a long time lived very comfortably without any trouble at all in catching her Mice, and without any of the Mice realising what was happening.

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**Who acts:** Cat, any · **What happens:** seize, live, catch, realise, happen · **To what, where:** last Mouse, Mice · **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 (Cat, any), 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:pg75000:6:14
# text = And so twice every day, she seized the last Mouse of the series, and for a long time lived very comfortably without any trouble at all in catching her Mice, and without any of the Mice realising what was happening.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
3	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	advmod	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Mouse	Mouse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	series	series	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
21	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
22	very	very	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	comfortably	comfortably	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
24	without	without	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
26	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	nmod	_	_
29	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
30	catching	catch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	Mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
35	without	without	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	40	nsubj:outer	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	Mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	_
40	realising	realise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
41	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	43	nsubj	_	_
42	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	happening	happen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	40	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seize** | past | Cat | the last Mouse of the series |  |  | day |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | past | Cat *not said here* |  |  |  | time | without any trouble at all; comfortably *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **catch** | gerund | Cat *not said here* | Cat's Mice |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme |
| 4 | **realise** | gerund | any of the Mice |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **happen** | past · progressive |  |  |  |  |  | what *nsubj* | 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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