The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 18

The fox and the tanuki were very clever, prudent beasts, and they also were skilled in magic, and by this means had escaped the fate of their unfortunate friends.

Who acts: fox, this · What happens: be, skill, mean, escape, fate · To what, where: beasts, magic, fate, unfortunate friends

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, this), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fox	det
2	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 clever	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 tanuki	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tanuki	det
5	tanuki	tanuki	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fox	conj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 clever	cop
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 clever	advmod
8	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 beasts	punct
10	prudent	prudent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 beasts	amod
11	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 clever	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 skilled	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 skilled	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 skilled	nsubj:pass
15	also	also	ADV	_	17 skilled	advmod
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 skilled	aux:pass
17	skilled	skill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 clever	parataxis
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 magic	case
19	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 skilled	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 escaped	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 escaped	cc
22	by	by	SCONJ	_	24 means	mark
23	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 means	nsubj
24	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 escaped	advcl
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 escaped	aux
26	escaped	escape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 clever	parataxis
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 fate	det
28	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 escaped	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 friends	case
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 friends	nmod:poss
31	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 friends	amod
32	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 fate	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 clever	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the fox and the tanuki			prudent beasts obl; clever property	tree rules
2	skill	past · passive		beasts = beast	magic		tree rules
3	mean	present	this				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	escape	past · perfect		the fate of beasts's unfortunate friends			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fate=Initial_Location
5	fate			beasts's unfortunate friends			nom fate «event transitive»: of=patient

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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