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title: And before the Cat had time to catch a single one the room was empty… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: And before the Cat had time to catch a single one the room was empty and not a sign of a Mouse was to be seen anywhere. Who acts: room. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Cat and the Mice., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Cat and the Mice., sentence 34

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And before the Cat had time to catch a single one the room was empty and not a sign of a Mouse was to be seen anywhere.

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**Who acts:** room · **What happens:** catch, be, see, sign · **To what, where:** single one, time, Mouse

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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 (room), 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:pg75000:6:34
# text = And before the Cat had time to catch a single one the room was empty and not a sign of a Mouse was to be seen anywhere.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
2	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
27	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | to-infinitive |  | a single one |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the room | a single one *not said here* |  |  |  | a sign of a Mouse *conj*; empty *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | past · passive |  | time |  |  |  | anywhere *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 4 | **sign** |  |  | a Mouse |  |  |  |  | nom sign «communication 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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