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title: It never entered the fox’s head that even foxes can be outwitted, so… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It never entered the fox’s head that even foxes can be outwitted, so after a bit he consented to go with her; but he hadn’t gone far before the cunning girl seized a stick, and gave him such a blow with it on the head, that he dropped down dead on the spot. Who acts: much, fox, cunning girl. A sente
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 61

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It never entered the fox’s head that even foxes can be outwitted, so after a bit he consented to go with her; but he hadn’t gone far before the cunning girl seized a stick, and gave him such a blow with it on the head, that he dropped down dead on the spot.

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**Who acts:** much, fox, cunning girl · **What happens:** not enter, outwit, consent, go, not go, seize · **To what, where:** head, foxes, stick, blow, fox, spot

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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 (much, fox, cunning girl), 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:pg7277:25:61
# text = It never entered the fox’s head that even foxes can be outwitted, so after a bit he consented to go with her; but he hadn’t gone far before the cunning girl seized a stick, and gave him such a blow with it on the head, that he dropped down dead on the spot.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obj	_	_
9	even	even	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	foxes	fox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	outwitted	outwit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
16	after	after	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	consented	consent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
31	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	advmod	_	_
32	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	cunning	cunning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
42	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	iobj	_	_
43	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	45	det:predet	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
46	with	with	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nmod	_	_
48	on	on	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
52	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	54	mark	_	_
53	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
54	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	conj	_	_
55	down	down	ADP	RP	_	54	compound:prt	_	_
56	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	xcomp	_	_
57	on	on	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **enter** | past | much | the fox's head |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme head=Destination |
| 2 | **outwit** | can · passive |  | foxes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **consent** | past | fox |  |  |  | after a bit |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | to-infinitive | fox *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with cow | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with she=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **not** **go** | past · perfect | fox |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **seize** | past | the cunning girl | a stick |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme |
| 7 | **give** | past |  | such blow | fox | the head |  | with much | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient blow=Theme on head=Asset |
| 8 | **drop down** | past | fox |  |  | the spot |  | dead *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on spot=Trajectory |

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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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