The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 61

It never entered the fox’s head that even foxes can be outwitted, so after a bit he consented to go with her; but he hadn’t gone far before the cunning girl seized a stick, and gave him such a blow with it on the head, that he dropped down dead on the spot.

Who acts: much, fox, cunning girl · What happens: not enter, outwit, consent, go, not go, seize · To what, where: head, foxes, stick, blow, fox, spot

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (much, fox, cunning girl), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 entered	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 entered	advmod
3	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fox	det
5	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 head	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 fox	case
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 entered	obj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 outwitted	obj
9	even	even	ADV	_	10 foxes	advmod
10	foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 outwitted	nsubj:pass
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 outwitted	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 outwitted	aux:pass
13	outwitted	outwit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 head	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 consented	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	20 consented	advmod
16	after	after	ADP	_	18 bit	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 bit	det
18	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 consented	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 consented	nsubj
20	consented	consent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 entered	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 go	mark
22	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 consented	xcomp
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 her	case
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 go	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 gone	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 gone	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 gone	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 gone	aux
29	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 gone	advmod
30	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 entered	parataxis
31	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 gone	advmod
32	before	before	SCONJ	_	36 seized	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 girl	det
34	cunning	cunning	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 girl	compound
35	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 seized	nsubj
36	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 gone	advcl
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 stick	det
38	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 seized	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 gave	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 gave	cc
41	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 entered	parataxis
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 gave	iobj
43	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	45 blow	det:predet
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 blow	det
45	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 gave	obj
46	with	with	ADP	_	47 it	case
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 blow	nmod
48	on	on	ADP	_	50 head	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 head	det
50	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 gave	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 dropped	punct
52	that	that	SCONJ	_	54 dropped	mark
53	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 dropped	nsubj
54	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 gave	conj
55	down	down	ADP	_	54 dropped	compound:prt
56	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 dropped	xcomp
57	on	on	ADP	_	59 spot	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 spot	det
59	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 dropped	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 entered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not enter	past	much	the fox's head					vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme head=Destination
2	outwit	can · passive		foxes					tree rules
3	consent	past	fox				after a bit		vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	go	to-infinitive	fox not said here					with cow	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with she=Beneficiary
5	not go	past · perfect	fox					far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	seize	past	the cunning girl	a stick					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme
7	give	past		such blow	fox	the head		with much	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient blow=Theme on head=Asset
8	drop down	past	fox			the spot		dead property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on spot=Trajectory

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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