More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 63

Then the old man got up in his red cap, And swore he would catch the fox in a trap; But the fox was too cunning, and gave him the slip, And ran through the town, the town, oh!

Who acts: old man, man, fox · What happens: get up, swear, catch, be, give, run · To what, where: red cap, fox, trap, slip, man, town

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 (old man, man, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 got	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	nsubj
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 got	compound:prt
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 cap	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 cap	nmod:poss
9	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cap	amod
10	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 swore	punct
12	And	and	CCONJ	_	13 swore	cc
13	swore	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 got	parataxis
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 catch	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 catch	aux
16	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 swore	xcomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 fox	det
18	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 catch	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 trap	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 trap	det
21	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 catch	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 cunning	punct
23	But	but	CCONJ	_	28 cunning	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 fox	det
25	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 cunning	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 cunning	cop
27	too	too	ADV	_	28 cunning	advmod
28	cunning	cunning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 got	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 gave	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 gave	cc
31	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 got	conj
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 gave	iobj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 slip	det
34	slip	slip	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 gave	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 ran	punct
36	And	and	CCONJ	_	37 ran	cc
37	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 got	parataxis
38	through	through	ADP	_	40 town	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 town	det
40	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 ran	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 town	punct
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 town	det
43	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 town	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 oh	punct
45	oh	oh	INTJ	_	37 ran	discourse
46	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get up	past	the old man			man's red cap	then		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	swear	past							vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	catch	would	man	the fox		a trap			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Theme
4	is	past	the fox					cunning property	tree rules
5	give	past	the old man not said here	the slip	man				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient slip=Theme
6	run	past				the town and the town			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through town=Trajectory

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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