Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fox and the Cat, sentence 5

The fox, full of all kinds of arrogance, looked at the cat from head to foot, and for a long time did not know whether he would give any answer or not.

Who acts: fox · What happens: look, not know, give · To what, where: head, answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Fox and the Cat. 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	11 looked	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 full	punct
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fox	amod
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 kinds	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 kinds	det
7	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 full	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 arrogance	case
9	arrogance	arrogance	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kinds	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 fox	punct
11	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 cat	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cat	det
14	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 looked	obl
15	from	from	ADP	_	16 head	case
16	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 looked	obl
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 foot	case
18	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 looked	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 know	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 know	cc
21	for	for	ADP	_	24 time	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 time	det
23	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 time	amod
24	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 know	obl
25	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 know	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 know	advmod
27	know	know	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 looked	parataxis
28	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	31 give	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 give	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 give	aux
31	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 know	ccomp
32	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	33 answer	det
33	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 give	obj
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 not	cc
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 answer	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	the fox		head		at the cat; to foot	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at cat=Theme
2	not know	past · do-support				time		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	give	would	fox	any answer				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme

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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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