The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 42
He gave the poor fox a blow on the head, which put an end to her, and the wicked tanuki went smiling to the nearest shop.
Who acts: man, blow, wicked tanuki · What happens: give, put, go, smile · To what, where: blow, poor fox, end, turn, nearest shop
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 (man, blow, wicked tanuki), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fox | det |
| 4 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fox | amod |
| 5 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 blow | det |
| 7 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 head | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 head | det |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 blow | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 put | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 put | nsubj |
| 13 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 blow | conj |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 end | det |
| 15 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 put | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 her | case |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 put | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 went | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 went | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 tanuki | det |
| 21 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 tanuki | amod |
| 22 | tanuki | tanuki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 went | nsubj |
| 23 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | conj |
| 24 | smiling | smile | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 went | advcl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 shop | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 shop | det |
| 27 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 shop | amod |
| 28 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 smiling | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | man | a blow | the poor fox | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent fox=Recipient blow=Theme | |||
| 2 | put | past | a blow | a end | turn | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent end=Goal | |||
| 3 | go | past | the wicked tanuki | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | smile | gerund | the wicked tanuki not said here | the nearest shop | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to shop=Recipient |
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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