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title: In the meantime the Wolf had pulled and bitten and scratched at the… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In the meantime the Wolf had pulled and bitten and scratched at the stone, till at last he succeeded in getting his paws out. Who acts: Wolf, musician. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Marvellous Musician, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Marvellous Musician, sentence 54

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In the meantime the Wolf had pulled and bitten and scratched at the stone, till at last he succeeded in getting his paws out.

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**Who acts:** Wolf, musician · **What happens:** pull, bite, scratch, succeed, get out · **To what, where:** meantime, paws

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Marvellous Musician. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wolf, musician), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg540:50:54
# text = In the meantime the Wolf had pulled and bitten and scratched at the stone, till at last he succeeded in getting his paws out.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	meantime	meantime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	bitten	bite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	scratched	scratch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	till	till	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	succeeded	succeed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
21	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	paws	paw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	out	out	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** | past · perfect | the Wolf |  |  | the meantime |  |  | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bite** | participle | the Wolf *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **scratch** | participle | the Wolf *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the stone | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at stone=Patient |
| 4 | **succeed** | past | musician |  |  |  | till last |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **get out** | gerund | musician *not said here* | musician's paws |  |  |  | out *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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