More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 53

The fox and his wife they had a great strife, They never ate mustard in all their whole life; They ate their meat without fork or knife And loved to be picking a bone, e-ho!

Who acts: fox · What happens: have, not eat, eat, love, pick · To what, where: great strife, mustard, whole life, meat, bone

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fox	det
2	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wife	cc
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 wife	nmod:poss
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fox	conj
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 strife	det
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 strife	amod
10	strife	strife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ate	punct
12	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 ate	nsubj
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 ate	advmod
14	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 had	conj
15	mustard	mustard	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ate	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	20 life	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 life	det:predet
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 life	nmod:poss
19	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 life	amod
20	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ate	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 ate	punct
22	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 ate	nsubj
23	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 had	parataxis
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 meat	nmod:poss
25	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ate	obj
26	without	without	ADP	_	27 fork	case
27	fork	fork	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ate	obl
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 knife	cc
29	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fork	conj
30	And	and	CCONJ	_	31 loved	cc
31	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 ate	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	34 picking	mark
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 picking	aux
34	picking	pick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 loved	advcl
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 bone	det
36	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 picking	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 e-ho	punct
38	e-ho	e-ho	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 bone	appos
39	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	the fox and Waggle's wife	a great strife			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strife=Patient
2	not eat	past	fox	mustard	fox's whole life		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mustard=Patient
3	eat	past	fox	fox's meat		without fork or knife	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient
4	love	past	fox not said here				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer
5	pick	to-infinitive · progressive	fox not said here	a bone			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient

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.

Text: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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