The Green Fairy Book, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, sentence 38

And so they laughed and jeered, and it was so hot that the bear said, ‘The enemy won’t be here at this rate for many hours to come, so I’ll just curl myself up in the fork of the tree and have a little sleep.’

Who acts: cat, tail, bear, enemy, many hours, I · What happens: laugh, jeer, be, say, not be, come · To what, where: rate, myself, fork, little sleep · 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, tail, bear, enemy), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 laughed	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	4 laughed	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laughed	nsubj
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 jeered	cc
6	jeered	jeer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 laughed	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hot	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 hot	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hot	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 hot	cop
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 hot	advmod
12	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 laughed	advcl
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 said	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bear	det
15	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 here	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 here	punct
19	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 enemy	det
20	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 here	nsubj
21	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 here	aux
22	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 here	advmod
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 here	cop
24	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 hot	conj
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 rate	case
26	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 rate	det
27	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 here	obl
28	for	for	SCONJ	_	32 come	mark
29	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 hours	amod
30	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 come	nsubj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 come	mark
32	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 rate	acl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 curl	punct
34	so	so	ADV	_	38 curl	advmod
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 curl	nsubj
36	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 curl	aux
37	just	just	ADV	_	38 curl	advmod
38	curl	curl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 laughed	conj
39	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	38 curl	obj
40	up	up	ADP	_	38 curl	compound:prt
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 fork	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 fork	det
43	fork	fork	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 curl	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 tree	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 tree	det
46	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 fork	nmod
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 have	cc
48	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 laughed	conj
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 sleep	det
50	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 sleep	amod
51	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 have	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 laughed	punct
53	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	cat				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	jeer	past	cat not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	tail			hot property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	the bear				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	not is	future	the enemy		this rate	here property	tree rules
6	come	to-infinitive	many hours				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	curl up	future	I	myself	the fork of the tree		vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Patient
8	have	present	cat not said here	a little sleep			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Patient

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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