--- title: The Kit Fox jumped up and ran to him and took the ring in his mouth… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics description: The Kit Fox jumped up and ran to him and took the ring in his mouth and started running, and the Badger dug a deep hole, and stayed there. Who acts: Kit Fox, Badger. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kit Fox, Badger), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66596:7:142 # text = The Kit Fox jumped up and ran to him and took the ring in his mouth and started running, and the Badger dug a deep hole, and stayed there. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Kit kit NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 jumped jump VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 19 running run VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 Badger Badger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 dug dig VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 stayed stay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 31 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 30 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **jump up** | past | the Kit Fox | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **run** | past | the Kit Fox *not said here* | | Fox | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result | | 3 | **take** | past | the Kit Fox *not said here* | the ring | | Fox's mouth | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ring=Value in mouth=Location | | 4 | **start** | past | the Kit Fox *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **run** | gerund | the Kit Fox *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **dig** | past | the Badger | a deep hole | | | | | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hole=Theme | | 7 | **stay** | past | the Badger *not said here* | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Project Gutenberg book 66596 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 141](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/7/141/) - next →: [sentence 143](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/7/143/) - ↑ back to [The Girl Who Was the Ring \[1\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/7/)