The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 43

Now the wolves thought they were very cunning, but the mink was more cunning still; and though he sent a message by a white hare, that was going that way, saying he should be delighted to be present, he determined that he would take his precautions.

Who acts: wolves, invitations, mink, Wolf, that · What happens: think, be, send, go, say, determine · To what, where: cunning, message, way, precautions · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wolves, invitations, mink, Wolf), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 thought	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wolves	det
3	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cunning	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cunning	cop
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 cunning	advmod
8	cunning	cunning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thought	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cunning	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 cunning	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mink	det
12	mink	mink	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cunning	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 cunning	cop
14	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 cunning	advmod
15	cunning	cunning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cunning	conj
16	still	still	ADV	_	15 cunning	advmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 sent	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sent	cc
19	though	though	SCONJ	_	21 sent	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sent	nsubj
21	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 message	det
23	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sent	obj
24	by	by	ADP	_	27 hare	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 hare	det
26	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 hare	amod
27	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sent	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 going	punct
29	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 going	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 going	aux
31	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 sent	advcl
32	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 way	det
33	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 going	obl:unmarked
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 saying	punct
35	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 going	conj
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 delighted	nsubj
37	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 delighted	aux
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 delighted	cop
39	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 saying	ccomp
40	to	to	PART	_	42 present	mark
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 present	cop
42	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 delighted	advcl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 determined	punct
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 determined	nsubj
45	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	conj
46	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 take	mark
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 take	nsubj
48	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 take	aux
49	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 determined	ccomp
50	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 precautions	nmod:poss
51	precautions	precaution	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 take	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the wolves		now		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	invitations = invitation			cunning property	tree rules
3	is a	past	the mink	cunning	still		tree rules
4	send	past	Wolf	a message		by a white hare	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme
5	go	past · progressive	that	that way			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	say speech: assert	gerund	that not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	is	should	Wolf			delighted property	tree rules
8	is	to-infinitive	Wolf not said here			present property	tree rules
9	determine	past	Wolf				vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
10	take	would	Wolf	Wolf's precautions			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent precaution=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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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