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description: However, she disguised her feelings of anger and decided to give the Mice one more trial; so in the evening she took her seat as usual on the cushion and waited for the Mice to appear. Who acts: Cat. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the C
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Cat and the Mice., sentence 27

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However, she disguised her feelings of anger and decided to give the Mice one more trial; so in the evening she took her seat as usual on the cushion and waited for the Mice to appear.

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**Who acts:** Cat · **What happens:** disguise, decide, give, take, wait, appear · **To what, where:** feelings, Mice, seat, cushion

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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), 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:pg75000:6:27
# text = However, she disguised her feelings of anger and decided to give the Mice one more trial; so in the evening she took her seat as usual on the cushion and waited for the Mice to appear.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	disguised	disguise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	decided	decide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
16	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	amod	_	_
17	trial	trial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	obl	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	cushion	cushion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	Mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	appear	appear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	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 | **disguise** | past | Cat | Cat's feelings of anger |  |  |  | however *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent feeling=Destination |
| 2 | **decide** | past | Cat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **give** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Cat *not said here* | the Mice  one more trial |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme |
| 4 | **take** | past | Cat | Cat's seat |  | the cushion | evening | as usual | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent seat=Theme on cushion=Destination |
| 5 | **wait** | past | Cat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the Mice | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **appear** | to-infinitive | Cat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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