The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 33
The buyer took the tanuki back to his house, and throwing him into a corner went out.
Who acts: buyer, throwing · What happens: take back, throw, go out · To what, where: tanuki, house, buyer, corner
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, throwing), 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 buyer | det |
| 2 | buyer | buyer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tanuki | det |
| 5 | tanuki | tanuki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 house | nmod:poss |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 went | cc |
| 12 | throwing | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 went | csubj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 throwing | obj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 corner | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 corner | det |
| 16 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 throwing | obl |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 went | compound:prt |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take back | past | the buyer | the tanuki | buyer's house | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tanuki=Theme to house=Destination | |||
| 2 | throw | gerund | buyer | into a corner result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer he=Theme into corner=Result | ||||
| 3 | go out | past | throwing | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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