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title: The fox climbed up stealthily and caught the little creatures with h… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The fox climbed up stealthily and caught the little creatures with his paws one after the other; and when he had killed them all he put their blood into a little bottle which he wore at his side and returned with it to Grannonia, who was beside herself with joy at the result of the fox’s raid. Who a
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 57

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The fox climbed up stealthily and caught the little creatures with his paws one after the other; and when he had killed them all he put their blood into a little bottle which he wore at his side and returned with it to Grannonia, who was beside herself with joy at the result of the fox’s raid.

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**Who acts:** fox, little bottle, Grannonia · **What happens:** climb up, catch, kill, put, wear, return · **To what, where:** little creatures, fox, blood, little bottle, side, Grannonia

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox, little bottle, Grannonia), 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:pg7277:25:57
# text = The fox climbed up stealthily and caught the little creatures with his paws one after the other; and when he had killed them all he put their blood into a little bottle which he wore at his side and returned with it to Grannonia, who was beside herself with joy at the result of the fox’s raid.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	stealthily	stealthily	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	paws	paw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	flat	_	_
15	after	after	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	obj	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	into	into	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
34	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
37	at	at	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	conj	_	_
42	with	with	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obl	_	_
44	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	Grannonia	Grannonia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
47	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	50	nsubj	_	_
48	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	cop	_	_
49	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	45	conj	_	_
51	with	with	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	_
53	at	at	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	’s	's	PART	POS	_	58	case	_	_
60	raid	raid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb up** | past | the fox |  |  |  |  | stealthily *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **catch** | past | the fox *not said here* | the little creatures |  |  |  | with fox's paws | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Theme |
| 3 | **kill** | past · perfect · passive |  | fox |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **put** | past | fox | birds's blood |  | a little bottle |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent blood=Goal |
| 5 | **wear** | past | a little bottle |  |  | fox's side |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at side=Source |
| 6 | **return** | past | a little bottle *not said here* |  | Grannonia |  |  | with side | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to grannonia=Result |
| 7 | **is** | past | Grannonia |  |  |  |  | beside Grannonia; with joy at the result of the fox's raid | tree rules |
| 8 | **result** |  |  | the fox's raid |  |  |  |  | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
| 9 | **raid** |  | the fox |  |  |  |  |  | nom raid «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 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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