The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 43

The fox trotted cheerfully by his two big companions, but on the way he managed to whisper to the wolf: “Tell me, Peter, when I am eaten, what will you have for your next dinner?”

Who acts: fox, you · What happens: trot, manage, whisper, tell, eat, have · To what, where: way, wolf, Peter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox, you), 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	3 trotted	nsubj
3	trotted	trot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	cheerfully	cheerfully	ADV	_	3 trotted	advmod
5	by	by	ADP	_	9 companions	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 companions	nmod:poss
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 companions	nummod
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 companions	amod
9	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 trotted	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 managed	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 managed	cc
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 way	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 way	det
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 managed	obl
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 managed	nsubj
16	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 trotted	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 whisper	mark
18	whisper	whisper	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 managed	xcomp
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 wolf	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 wolf	det
21	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 whisper	obl
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 Tell	punct
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 Tell	punct
24	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 trotted	parataxis
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 Tell	iobj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Peter	punct
27	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Tell	iobj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 eaten	punct
29	when	when	SCONJ	_	32 eaten	mark
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 eaten	nsubj
31	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 eaten	aux:pass
32	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 Tell	advcl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 have	punct
34	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	37 have	obj
35	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 have	aux
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 have	nsubj
37	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 Tell	conj
38	for	for	ADP	_	41 dinner	case
39	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 dinner	nmod:poss
40	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 dinner	amod
41	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 have	obl
42	?	?	PUNCT	_	24 Tell	punct
43	”	"	PUNCT	_	24 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	trot	past	the fox				by fox's two big companions; cheerfully property	tree rules
2	manage	past	fox			the way		vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	whisper speech: assert	to-infinitive	fox not said here		the wolf			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to wolf=Recipient
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive			Peter			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient peter=Topic
5	eat in a quote	present · passive		the wolf and the bear = wolf				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	have in a quote	future	you				for your next dinner	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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