The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 54

But it was too late now, and in another minute the fox had eaten his way through the cabbage walls, and had caught the trembling, shivering Whitey, and carried her off to his den.

What happens: eat, catch, shiver, carry off · To what, where: cabbage, cabbage walls, trembling, Whitey, den

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Little Pigs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	_	15 eaten	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 eaten	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 eaten	aux:pass
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 late	advmod
5	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 now	advmod
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 eaten	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 eaten	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 eaten	cc
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 minute	case
10	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	11 minute	det
11	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 eaten	obl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fox	det
13	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 eaten	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 eaten	aux
15	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 way	nmod:poss
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 eaten	obl:unmarked
18	through	through	ADP	_	21 walls	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 walls	det
20	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 walls	compound
21	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 eaten	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 caught	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 caught	cc
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 caught	aux
25	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 eaten	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 trembling	det
27	trembling	trembling	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 caught	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 shivering	punct
29	shivering	shiver	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 caught	advcl
30	Whitey	Whitey	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 shivering	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 carried	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 carried	cc
33	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 caught	conj
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 carried	obj
35	off	off	ADP	_	33 carried	compound:prt
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 den	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 den	nmod:poss
38	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 carried	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 eaten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past · perfect · passive	cabbage	the cabbage walls	now; minute	fox's way obl:unmarked	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	catch	past · perfect	the trembling				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trembling=Theme
3	shiver	gerund	Whitey				tree rules
4	carry off	past	Whitey	fox's den			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to den=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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