The Green Fairy Book, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, sentence 31

They promised to do their best, and the fox continued, ‘The wolf has declared war against me, and is at this moment marching to meet me in company with the bear and the wild boar, and to-morrow there will be a fierce battle between us.’

Who acts: troubles, fox, moment · What happens: promise, do, continue, declare, be, march · To what, where: best, wolf, me, company, fierce battle

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 (troubles, fox, moment), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 promised	nsubj
2	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 do	mark
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 promised	xcomp
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 best	nmod:poss
6	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 do	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 continued	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 continued	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fox	det
10	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 continued	nsubj
11	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 promised	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 declared	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 declared	punct
14	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wolf	det
15	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 declared	nsubj:pass
16	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 declared	aux
17	declared	declare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 continued	conj
18	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 declared	xcomp
19	against	against	ADP	_	20 me	case
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 war	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 moment	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 moment	cc
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 moment	cop
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 moment	case
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 moment	det
26	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 promised	obl:unmarked
27	marching	march	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 moment	acl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 meet	mark
29	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 marching	xcomp
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 meet	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 company	case
32	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 meet	obl
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 bear	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 bear	det
35	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 meet	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 boar	cc
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 boar	det
38	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 boar	amod
39	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 bear	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 battle	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 battle	cc
42	to	to	ADP	_	44 morrow	case
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	42 to	punct
44	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 battle	obl
45	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	47 be	expl
46	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 be	aux
47	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	50 battle	cop
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 battle	det
49	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 battle	amod
50	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 promised	parataxis
51	between	between	ADP	_	52 us	case
52	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	50 battle	nmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	50 battle	punct
54	’	'	PUNCT	_	50 battle	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	troubles = trouble					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	troubles = trouble not said here	troubles's best				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality
3	continue	past	the fox					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	declare speech: other	present · perfect · passive		the wolf				vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute
5	is	present				at this moment		tree rules
6	march	gerund	this moment not said here					tree rules
7	meet	to-infinitive	this moment not said here	me	company		with the bear and the wild boar	vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent i=Theme with bear=Instrument
8	is a	infinitive		a fierce battle			to morrow; between us	tree rules

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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