The Green Fairy Book, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, sentence 10

The cat took her advice, and ran as quickly as her poor old legs would carry her into the wood, and when Simon came home, his wife told him that the cat had vanished.

Who acts: cat, poor old legs, Simon, wife · What happens: take, run, carry, come, tell, vanish · To what, where: advice, Susan, wood, Simon · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The War of the Wolf and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat, poor old legs, Simon, wife), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 advice	nmod:poss
5	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ran	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 ran	cc
8	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
9	as	as	ADV	_	10 quickly	advmod
10	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	8 ran	advmod
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 carry	mark
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 legs	nmod:poss
13	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 legs	amod
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 legs	amod
15	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 carry	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 carry	aux
17	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 ran	advcl
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 carry	obj
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 wood	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 wood	det
21	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 carry	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 told	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 told	cc
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 came	advmod
25	Simon	Simon	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 came	nsubj
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 told	advcl
27	home	home	ADV	_	26 came	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 came	punct
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 wife	nmod:poss
30	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 told	nsubj
31	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 told	iobj
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 vanished	mark
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 cat	det
35	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 vanished	nsubj
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 vanished	aux
37	vanished	vanish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 told	ccomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	the cat	Susan's advice				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme
2	run	past	the cat not said here				quickly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	carry	would	Susan's poor old legs	Susan		the wood		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
4	come	past	Simon				home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	past	Simon's wife		Simon			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
6	vanish	past · perfect	the cat					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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