The Green Fairy Book, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, sentence 51

In the meantime the fox said to the dog, ‘Our friend Simon has just killed a pig; when it gets a little darker, you must go into the courtyard and bark with all your might.’

Who acts: fox, friend, pig, you · What happens: say, kill, get, go · To what, where: dog, meantime, pig, courtyard · 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, friend, pig, you), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 meantime	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 meantime	det
3	meantime	meantime	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fox	det
5	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 dog	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dog	det
9	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 killed	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 killed	punct
12	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 friend	nmod:poss
13	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 killed	nsubj
14	Simon	Simon	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 friend	appos
15	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 killed	aux
16	just	just	ADV	_	17 killed	advmod
17	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 said	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 pig	det
19	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 killed	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 gets	punct
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 gets	advmod
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 gets	nsubj
23	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	parataxis
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 little	det
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 darker	obl
26	darker	dark	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 gets	xcomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 go	punct
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 go	nsubj
29	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 go	aux
30	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 gets	conj
31	into	into	ADP	_	33 courtyard	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 courtyard	det
33	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 go	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 bark	cc
35	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 courtyard	conj
36	with	with	SCONJ	_	39 might	mark
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 might	det:predet
38	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 might	nmod:poss
39	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 go	advcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 gets	punct
41	’	'	PUNCT	_	23 gets	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the fox		the dog	the meantime		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to dog=Recipient
2	kill	present · perfect	Our friend	a pig				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=Theme
3	get	present	pig				dark property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	go	must	you			the courtyard and bark		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into courtyard=Initial_Location

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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