--- title: ‘All right,’ said the dog and the cat, ‘we will stand by you, and if… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘All right,’ said the dog and the cat, ‘we will stand by you, and if we are killed, it is at any rate better to die on the field of battle than to perish ignobly at home,’ and they shook paws and concluded the bargain. Who acts: we, wolf, cat. 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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 (we, wolf, cat), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7277:53:32 # text = ‘All right,’ said the dog and the cat, ‘we will stand by you, and if we are killed, it is at any rate better to die on the field of battle than to perish ignobly at home,’ and they shook paws and concluded the bargain. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 All all DET DT PronType=Tot 6 ccomp _ _ 3 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 6 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 ccomp _ _ 17 by by ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 if if SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 22 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 killed kill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 28 at at ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 30 det _ _ 30 rate rate NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 parataxis _ _ 31 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 30 amod _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 die die VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 csubj _ _ 34 on on ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 battle battle NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 39 than than SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 perish perish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 advcl _ _ 42 ignobly ignobly ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 43 at at ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 41 punct _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 48 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 nsubj _ _ 49 shook shake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 50 paws paw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 49 obj _ _ 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 52 concluded conclude VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 49 conj _ _ 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 54 bargain bargain NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 55 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | the dog and the cat | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **stand** | future | we | | | | | by you | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by you=Location | | 3 | **kill** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive | | we | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | wolf | | | any rate | | | tree rules | | 5 | **die** | to-infinitive | | | | the field of battle | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 6 | **perish** | to-infinitive | | | | home | | ignobly *property* | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **shake** | past | cat | paws | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent paw=Patient | | 8 | **conclude** | past | cat *not said here* | the bargain | | | | | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bargain=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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/53/31/) - next →: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/53/33/) - ↑ back to [The War of the Wolf and the Fox](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/53/)