The Green Fairy Book, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, sentence 32

‘All right,’ said the dog and the cat, ‘we will stand by you, and if we are killed, it is at any rate better to die on the field of battle than to perish ignobly at home,’ and they shook paws and concluded the bargain.

Who acts: we, wolf, cat · What happens: say, stand, kill, be, die, perish · To what, where: dog, we, rate, field, home, paws · 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 (we, wolf, cat), 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	_	6 said	punct
2	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 said	ccomp
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 All	amod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 All	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 All	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dog	det
8	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 cat	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cat	det
11	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dog	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stand	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 stand	punct
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 stand	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 stand	aux
16	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
17	by	by	ADP	_	18 you	case
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 stand	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 killed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 killed	cc
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 killed	mark
22	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 killed	nsubj:pass
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 killed	aux:pass
24	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 said	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 killed	punct
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 rate	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 rate	cop
28	at	at	ADP	_	30 rate	case
29	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	30 rate	det
30	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 killed	parataxis
31	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	30 rate	amod
32	to	to	PART	_	33 die	mark
33	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 better	csubj
34	on	on	ADP	_	36 field	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 field	det
36	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 die	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 battle	case
38	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 field	nmod
39	than	than	SCONJ	_	41 perish	mark
40	to	to	PART	_	41 perish	mark
41	perish	perish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 die	advcl
42	ignobly	ignobly	ADV	_	41 perish	advmod
43	at	at	ADP	_	44 home	case
44	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 perish	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 perish	punct
46	’	'	PUNCT	_	41 perish	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 shook	cc
48	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 shook	nsubj
49	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 better	conj
50	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 shook	obj
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 concluded	cc
52	concluded	conclude	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 shook	conj
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 bargain	det
54	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 concluded	obj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the dog and the cat			tree rules
2	stand	future	we			by you	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by you=Location
3	kill a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		we			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	is	present	wolf		any rate		tree rules
5	die	to-infinitive			the field of battle		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	perish	to-infinitive			home	ignobly property	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
7	shake	past	cat	paws			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent paw=Patient
8	conclude	past	cat not said here	the bargain			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bargain=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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