The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 94

Then the fox dug his claws into the ground, but he was not strong enough to pull against the bear, and slowly he was dragged forth and his body flung over the bear’s neck.

Who acts: fox, bear, body · What happens: dig, not be, pull, drag, fling · To what, where: claws, bear, neck

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox, bear, body), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 dug	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fox	det
3	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dug	nsubj
4	dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 claws	nmod:poss
6	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dug	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 ground	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ground	det
9	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dug	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 strong	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 strong	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 strong	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 strong	cop
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 strong	advmod
15	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dug	parataxis
16	enough	enough	ADV	_	15 strong	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 pull	mark
18	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 strong	advcl
19	against	against	ADP	_	21 bear	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bear	det
21	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pull	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 dragged	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 dragged	cc
24	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	27 dragged	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 dragged	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 dragged	aux:pass
27	dragged	drag	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 dug	parataxis
28	forth	forth	ADV	_	27 dragged	advmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 flung	cc
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 body	nmod:poss
31	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 flung	nsubj
32	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 dragged	conj
33	over	over	ADP	_	37 neck	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 bear	det
35	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 neck	nmod:poss
36	’s	's	PART	_	35 bear	case
37	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 flung	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dug	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig	past	the fox	bear's claws		then	into the ground	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent claw=Instrument into ground=Patient
2	not is	past	bear				enough, strong property	tree rules
3	pull	to-infinitive	bear not said here				against the bear	vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent against bear=Theme
4	drag	past · passive		bear			forth, slowly property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	fling	past	bear's body		the bear's neck			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent over neck=Destination

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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