The Green Fairy Book, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, sentence 46

‘All right,’ said the cat, and did exactly as the fox told her.

Who acts: fox · What happens: say, do, tell · To what, where: cat, master · 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), 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 cat	det
8	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 did	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 did	cc
11	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
12	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	11 did	advmod
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 told	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fox	det
15	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 told	nsubj
16	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 did	advcl
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 told	iobj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the cat			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cat=Topic
2	do	past				exactly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	past	the fox		master		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient

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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