The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 38
So the tanuki changed himself into a peasant, and started for the village, with his wife’s body hanging over his shoulder.
Who acts: tanuki, body · What happens: change, start, hang · To what, where: Tanuki, shoulder
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 (tanuki, body), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 changed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tanuki | det |
| 3 | tanuki | tanuki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 changed | nsubj |
| 4 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 changed | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 peasant | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 peasant | det |
| 8 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 changed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 started | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 started | cc |
| 11 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 changed | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 village | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 village | det |
| 14 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 started | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 body | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 body | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 wife | nmod:poss |
| 18 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 body | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 wife | case |
| 20 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 started | obl |
| 21 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 body | acl |
| 22 | over | over | ADP | _ | 24 shoulder | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 24 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hanging | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past | the tanuki | Tanuki | into a peasant result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into peasant=Result | |||
| 2 | start | past | the tanuki not said here | for the village; with Tanuki's wife's body | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with body=Subeventuality | ||||
| 3 | hang | gerund | Tanuki's wife's body not said here | Tanuki's shoulder | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over shoulder=Location |
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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