The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 32

The bear, seeing that the traitor had escaped, flung the ladle after him, and it just caught the tip of his tail, and that is how there comes to be a spot of white on the tails of all foxes.

Who acts: bear, traitor, that · What happens: see, escape, fling, catch, be, come · To what, where: traitor, ladle, tip, spot

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bear, traitor, that), 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 bear	det
2	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 flung	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 seeing	punct
4	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 bear	acl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 escaped	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 traitor	det
7	traitor	traitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 escaped	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 escaped	aux
9	escaped	escape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 seeing	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 bear	punct
11	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ladle	det
13	ladle	ladle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 flung	obj
14	after	after	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 flung	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 caught	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 caught	cc
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 caught	nsubj
19	just	just	ADV	_	20 caught	advmod
20	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 flung	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 tip	det
22	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 caught	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 tail	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 tail	nmod:poss
25	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tip	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 comes	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 comes	cc
28	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 there	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 there	cop
30	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	31 there	advmod
31	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 comes	advmod
32	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 caught	parataxis
33	to	to	PART	_	36 spot	mark
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 spot	cop
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 spot	det
36	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 comes	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 white	case
38	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 spot	amod
39	on	on	ADP	_	41 tails	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 tails	det
41	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 white	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 foxes	case
43	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	44 foxes	det
44	foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 tails	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 flung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	gerund	the bear not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	escape	past · perfect · passive		the traitor			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Initial_Location
3	fling	past	the bear	the ladle	after Michael		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ladle=Theme
4	catch	past	traitor	the tip of bear's tail			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tip=Theme
5	is	present	that			there property	tree rules
6	come	present					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is a	to-infinitive		a spot			tree rules

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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