The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 97

But no sooner had the fox let the crow go than he soared up into the air, and hovering just out of teach of his enemy’s jaws, he cried with a laugh: “Ah, fox! you know well how to catch, but you cannot keep.”

Who acts: fox, crow, you · What happens: have, let, go, soar up, hover, cry · To what, where: air, teach, fox · 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, crow, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 had	cc
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 sooner	det
3	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 had	advmod
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fox	det
6	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 let	nsubj
7	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 crow	det
9	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 go	nsubj
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 let	xcomp
11	than	than	SCONJ	_	13 soared	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 soared	nsubj
13	soared	soar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 go	advcl
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 soared	compound:prt
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 air	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 air	det
17	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 soared	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 cried	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 cried	cc
20	hovering	hover	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 cried	advcl
21	just	just	ADV	_	24 teach	advmod
22	out	out	ADP	_	24 teach	case
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 teach	case
24	teach	teach	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hovering	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	29 jaws	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 enemy	nmod:poss
27	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 jaws	nmod:poss
28	’s	's	PART	_	27 enemy	case
29	jaws	jaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 teach	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hovering	punct
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 cried	nsubj
32	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 laugh	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 laugh	det
35	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 cried	obl
36	:	:	PUNCT	_	40 fox	punct
37	“	"	PUNCT	_	40 fox	punct
38	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	40 fox	discourse
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 Ah	punct
40	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 cried	obl
41	!	!	PUNCT	_	43 know	punct
42	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 know	nsubj
43	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 had	parataxis
44	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	43 know	advmod
45	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	47 catch	advmod
46	to	to	PART	_	47 catch	mark
47	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 know	advcl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 keep	punct
49	but	but	CCONJ	_	53 keep	cc
50	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	53 keep	nsubj
51	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 keep	aux
52	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	53 keep	advmod
53	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	conj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	53 keep	punct
55	”	"	PUNCT	_	53 keep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past				soon property	tree rules
2	let	past	the fox				tree rules
3	go	infinitive	the crow				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	soar up	past	fox		the air		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into air=Trajectory
5	hover	gerund	fox not said here	teach of fox's enemy's jaws			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location teach=Theme
6	cry speech: express	past	fox	fox		with a laugh	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with laugh=Theme
7	know in a quote	present	you			well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	catch in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
9	not keep in a quote	can	you				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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