The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 62

But it was too strong and well-built; and though the fox scraped and tore at the bricks with his paws he only hurt himself, and at last he had to give it up, and limp away with his fore-paws all bleeding and sore.

Who acts: force, fox · What happens: be, build, scrape, hurt, have, give up · To what, where: fox, last, force

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: who acts (force, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 strong	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 strong	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 strong	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 strong	advmod
5	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 built	cc
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 built	advmod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 well	punct
9	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 strong	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 scraped	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 scraped	cc
12	though	though	SCONJ	_	15 scraped	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fox	det
14	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 scraped	nsubj
15	scraped	scrape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 strong	parataxis
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 tore	cc
17	tore	tore	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 scraped	conj
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 bricks	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bricks	det
20	bricks	brick	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 scraped	obl
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 paws	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 paws	nmod:poss
23	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 bricks	nmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 hurt	nsubj
25	only	only	ADV	_	26 hurt	advmod
26	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 paws	acl:relcl
27	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 hurt	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 had	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 had	cc
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 last	case
31	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 had	obl
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 had	nsubj
33	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 scraped	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 give	mark
35	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 had	xcomp
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 give	obj
37	up	up	ADP	_	35 give	compound:prt
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 limp	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 limp	cc
40	limp	limp	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 strong	parataxis
41	away	away	ADV	_	40 limp	advmod
42	with	with	ADP	_	46 paws	case
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 paws	nmod:poss
44	fore	fore	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 paws	compound
45	-	-	PUNCT	_	44 fore	punct
46	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 limp	obl
47	all	all	ADV	_	48 bleeding	advmod
48	bleeding	bleed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 limp	advcl
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 sore	cc
50	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 bleeding	conj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 strong	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	force			strong property	tree rules
2	build	participle	force not said here			well property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	scrape	past	the fox			at the bricks with fox's paws	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at brick=Patient
4	hurt	past	fox	fox			vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Patient
5	have	past	fox		last		tree rules
6	give up	to-infinitive	fox not said here	force			vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Source
7	limp away	infinitive				with fox's fore paws; away property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	bleed	gerund				all property	vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

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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