The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 34

Directly the tanaki found he was alone, he crept cautiously through a chink of the window, thinking, as he did so, how lucky it was that he was not a fox, and was able to climb.

Who acts: tanaki, window · What happens: find, be, creep, think, do, not be · To what, where: chink, fox · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (tanaki, window), 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	Directly	directly	ADV	_	4 found	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tanaki	det
3	tanaki	tanaki	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	nsubj
4	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 alone	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 alone	cop
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	4 found	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 crept	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 crept	nsubj
10	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 found	conj
11	cautiously	cautiously	ADV	_	10 crept	advmod
12	through	through	ADP	_	14 chink	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 chink	det
14	chink	chink	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 crept	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 window	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 window	det
17	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 chink	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 thinking	punct
19	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 crept	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 did	punct
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 did	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 did	nsubj
23	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 thinking	parataxis
24	so	so	ADV	_	23 did	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 lucky	punct
26	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	27 lucky	advmod
27	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 did	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 fox	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 fox	cop
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 fox	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 fox	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 fox	cop
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 fox	advmod
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 fox	det
35	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lucky	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 able	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 able	cc
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 able	cop
39	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 found	conj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 climb	mark
41	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 able	xcomp
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past	the tanaki			directly property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	tanaki			alone property	tree rules
3	creep	past	tanaki		a chink of the window	cautiously property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through chink=Trajectory
4	think speech: other	gerund	tanaki not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	do	past	tanaki				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	not is a	past	window	a fox			tree rules
7	is	past	the tanaki not said here			able property	tree rules
8	climb	to-infinitive	the tanaki not said here				vn run-51.3.2 «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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