The Green Fairy Book, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, sentence 45

On their way home from the war the fox caught score of mice, and when they reached Simon’s cottage he put them all on the stove and said to the cat, ‘Now go and fetch one mouse after the other, and lay them down before your master.’

Who acts: fox, bear · What happens: catch, reach, put, say, go, fetch · To what, where: score, way, cottage, bear, stove, one mouse · 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 (fox, bear), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 way	case
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 way	nmod:poss
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 caught	obl
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 way	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 war	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 war	det
7	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 home	obl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fox	det
9	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 caught	nsubj
10	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	score	score	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 caught	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 mice	case
13	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 score	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 put	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 put	cc
16	when	when	SCONJ	_	18 reached	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 reached	nsubj
18	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 put	advcl
19	Simon	Simon	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 cottage	nmod:poss
20	’s	's	PART	_	19 Simon	case
21	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 reached	obj
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 put	nsubj
23	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 caught	conj
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 put	obj
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 them	nmod:unmarked
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 stove	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 stove	det
28	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 put	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 said	cc
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 caught	conj
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 cat	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 cat	det
33	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 said	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 go	punct
35	‘	'	PUNCT	_	37 go	punct
36	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 go	advmod
37	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	30 said	ccomp
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 fetch	cc
39	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	37 go	conj
40	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 mouse	nummod
41	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 fetch	obj
42	after	after	ADP	_	44 other	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 other	det
44	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 fetch	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 lay	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 lay	cc
47	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	37 go	conj
48	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 lay	obj
49	down	down	ADP	_	47 lay	compound:prt
50	before	before	ADP	_	52 master	case
51	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 master	nmod:poss
52	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 lay	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 caught	punct
54	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	the fox	score of mice	bear's way			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent score=Theme
2	reach	past	bear	Simon's cottage				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent cottage=Theme
3	put	past	fox	bear	the stove			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme on stove=Destination
4	say speech: assert	past	the fox not said here				to the cat	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to cat=Experiencer clause=Topic
5	go	infinitive				now		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	fetch	infinitive		one mouse		after the other		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme
7	lay down	infinitive		bear	your master			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme before master=Destination
8	score			mice				nom score «cognition transitive»: of=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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