The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 63

‘Never mind!’ he cried angrily as he went off, ‘I’ll catch you another day, see if I don’t, and won’t I grind your bones to powder when I have got you in my den!’ and he snarled fiercely and showed his teeth.

Who acts: you, fox, I · What happens: not mind, cry, go off, catch, see, not do · To what, where: you, bones, den, teeth

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 (you, fox, I), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 mind	punct
2	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 mind	advmod
3	mind	mind	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 mind	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 mind	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cried	nsubj
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 mind	parataxis
8	angrily	angrily	ADV	_	7 cried	advmod
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 went	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 went	nsubj
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cried	advcl
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 went	compound:prt
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 catch	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 catch	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 catch	nsubj
16	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 catch	aux
17	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 cried	conj
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 catch	obj
19	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	20 day	det
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 catch	obl:unmarked
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 see	punct
22	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 catch	conj
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 do	mark
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 do	nsubj
25	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 see	ccomp
26	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 do	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 grind	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 grind	cc
29	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 grind	aux
30	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 grind	advmod
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 grind	nsubj
32	grind	grind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 mind	conj
33	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 bones	nmod:poss
34	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 grind	obj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 powder	mark
36	powder	powder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 grind	advcl
37	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	40 got	advmod
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 got	nsubj
39	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 got	aux
40	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 powder	ccomp
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	40 got	obj
42	in	in	ADP	_	44 den	case
43	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 den	nmod:poss
44	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 got	obl
45	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 mind	punct
46	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 mind	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 snarled	cc
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 snarled	nsubj
49	snarled	snarl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 mind	conj
50	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	_	49 snarled	advmod
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 showed	cc
52	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 snarled	conj
53	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 teeth	nmod:poss
54	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 showed	obj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 mind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not mind	imperative	you not said here					vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	cry speech: express	past	fox				angrily property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go off	past	fox					vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
4	catch	future	I	you		day		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
5	see	infinitive	I not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	not do a condition, not said to happen	present	I					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	not grind	future	I	your bones				vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient
8	powder	to-infinitive	I not said here					tree rules
9	get	present · perfect	I	you	my den			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
10	snarl	past	fox				fiercely property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	show	past	fox not said here	fox's teeth				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tooth=Recipient

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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