The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 39
A buyer was not long in coming forward, and while they were making the bargain a wicked thought darted into the tanuki’s head, that if he got rid of the fox there would be more food for him and his son.
Who acts: buyer, wife · What happens: not be, come forward, make, dart, get, be · To what, where: bargain, wicked thought, head, more 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, wife), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 buyer | det |
| 2 | buyer | buyer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 long | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 long | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 long | advmod |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 7 coming | mark |
| 7 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 long | advcl |
| 8 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 7 coming | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 making | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 making | cc |
| 11 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 14 making | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 making | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 making | aux |
| 14 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 long | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bargain | det |
| 16 | bargain | bargain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 making | obj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 thought | det |
| 18 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 thought | amod |
| 19 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 making | obj |
| 20 | darted | dart | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 thought | acl |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 head | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 tanuki | det |
| 23 | tanuki | tanuki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 head | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 tanuki | case |
| 25 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 darted | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 food | punct |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 food | mark |
| 28 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 30 got | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 got | nsubj |
| 30 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 food | nsubj |
| 31 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 got | xcomp |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 fox | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 fox | det |
| 34 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 rid | obl |
| 35 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 got | advmod |
| 36 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 food | aux |
| 37 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 food | cop |
| 38 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 39 food | amod |
| 39 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 long | conj |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 him | case |
| 41 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 food | nmod |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 son | cc |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 son | nmod:poss |
| 44 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 him | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | a buyer | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come forward | gerund | a buyer not said here | forward property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | past · progressive | wife | the bargain | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset bargain=Beneficiary thought=Product | ||||
| 4 | dart | participle | a wicked thought not said here | the tanuki's head | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into head=Destination | ||||
| 5 | get a condition, not said to happen | past | buyer | there | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 6 | is a | would | more food | for Tanuki | tree rules |
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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