The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 26
It will be easy to find a buyer, tanukis’ skins are always wanted; then buy some food with the money and come home again.
Who acts: buyer · What happens: be, find, want, buy, come · To what, where: buyer, skins, food
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 (buyer), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 easy | expl |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 easy | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 easy | cop |
| 4 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 find | mark |
| 6 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 easy | csubj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 buyer | det |
| 8 | buyer | buyer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 find | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wanted | punct |
| 10 | tanukis | tanuki | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 skins | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 10 tanukis | case |
| 12 | skins | skin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 wanted | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 wanted | aux:pass |
| 14 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 15 wanted | advmod |
| 15 | wanted | want | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 buyer | acl:relcl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 buy | punct |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 buy | advmod |
| 18 | buy | buy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 easy | parataxis |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 food | det |
| 20 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 buy | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 money | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 money | det |
| 23 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 buy | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 come | cc |
| 25 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 18 buy | conj |
| 26 | home | home | ADV | _ | 25 come | advmod |
| 27 | again | again | ADV | _ | 25 come | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 easy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | easy property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | a buyer | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buyer=Topic | |||||
| 3 | want | present · passive | a buyer not said here | tanukis's skins | always property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme | |||
| 4 | buy | infinitive | some food | then | with the money | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme | |||
| 5 | come | infinitive | again | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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