--- title: In the meantime the fox said to the dog, ‘Our friend Simon has just… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: In the meantime the fox said to the dog, ‘Our friend Simon has just killed a pig; when it gets a little darker, you must go into the courtyard and bark with all your might.’ Who acts: fox, friend, pig, you. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, with it --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/53/51/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [The War of the Wolf and the Fox](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/53/) / 51 # The Green Fairy Book, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, sentence 51 In the meantime the fox said to the dog, ‘Our friend Simon has just killed a pig; when it gets a little darker, you must go into the courtyard and bark with all your might.’ **Who acts:** fox, friend, pig, you · **What happens:** say, kill, get, go · **To what, where:** dog, meantime, pig, courtyard · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, friend, pig, you), 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:pg7277:53:51 # text = In the meantime the fox said to the dog, ‘Our friend Simon has just killed a pig; when it gets a little darker, you must go into the courtyard and bark with all your might.’ 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 meantime meantime NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 11 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 Our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 14 Simon Simon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 15 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 just just ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 killed kill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 conj _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 pig pig NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 21 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 23 advmod _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 obl _ _ 26 darker dark ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 23 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 31 into into ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 courtyard courtyard NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 bark bark NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 36 with with SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 37 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 39 det:predet _ _ 38 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the fox | | the dog | the meantime | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to dog=Recipient | | 2 | **kill** | present · perfect | Our friend | a pig | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=Theme | | 3 | **get** | present | pig | | | | | dark *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **go** | must | you | | | the courtyard and bark | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into courtyard=Initial\_Location | 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 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/53/50/) - next →: [sentence 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/53/52/) - ↑ back to [The War of the Wolf and the Fox](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/53/)