The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 17
These were a grey-furred, long-tailed tanuki, his wife the fox, who was one of his own family, and their little son.
Who acts: fox · What happens: fur, tail, be · To what, where: furred long tailed tanuki, one
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 tanuki | det |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 tanuki | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 tanuki | det |
| 4 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 furred | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 grey | punct |
| 6 | furred | fur | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 tanuki | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 tanuki | punct |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tanuki | amod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 long | punct |
| 10 | tailed | tail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 tanuki | amod |
| 11 | tanuki | tanuki | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wife | punct |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wife | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tanuki | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fox | det |
| 16 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wife | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 one | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 one | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 one | cop |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 fox | appos |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 family | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 family | nmod:poss |
| 23 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 family | amod |
| 24 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 one | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 son | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 son | cc |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 son | nmod:poss |
| 28 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 son | amod |
| 29 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tanuki | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 tanuki | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fur | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | tail | participle | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | past | this furred long tailed tanuki and Tanuki's wife and the fox and wife's little son | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | the fox | one | of fox's own family | tree rules |
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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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