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title: On their way home from the war the fox caught score of mice, and whe… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: On their way home from the war the fox caught score of mice, and when they reached Simon’s cottage he put them all on the stove and said to the cat, ‘Now go and fetch one mouse after the other, and lay them down before your master.’ Who acts: fox, bear. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew
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# The Green Fairy Book, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, sentence 45

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On their way home from the war the fox caught score of mice, and when they reached Simon’s cottage he put them all on the stove and said to the cat, ‘Now go and fetch one mouse after the other, and lay them down before your master.’

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**Who acts:** fox, bear · **What happens:** catch, reach, put, say, go, fetch · **To what, where:** score, way, cottage, bear, stove, one mouse · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The War of the Wolf and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox, bear), 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:pg7277:53:45
# text = On their way home from the war the fox caught score of mice, and when they reached Simon’s cottage he put them all on the stove and said to the cat, ‘Now go and fetch one mouse after the other, and lay them down before your master.’
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	home	home	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	score	score	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
16	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	18	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
19	Simon	Simon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	nmod:unmarked	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	stove	stove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	37	advmod	_	_
37	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	30	ccomp	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	37	conj	_	_
40	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	41	nummod	_	_
41	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	after	after	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	lay	lay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	37	conj	_	_
48	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obj	_	_
49	down	down	ADP	RP	_	47	compound:prt	_	_
50	before	before	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | past | the fox | score of mice |  | bear's way |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent score=Theme |
| 2 | **reach** | past | bear | Simon's cottage |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent cottage=Theme |
| 3 | **put** | past | fox | bear |  | the stove |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme on stove=Destination |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the fox *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the cat | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to cat=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 5 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | now |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **fetch** | infinitive |  | one mouse |  |  | after the other |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme |
| 7 | **lay down** | infinitive |  | bear |  | your master |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme before master=Destination |
| 8 | **score** |  |  | mice |  |  |  |  | nom score «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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