The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 44

At length some notion of the truth began to dawn on him; but he was careful to let the old tanuki see nothing, though in his own mind he turned over plans from morning till night, wondering how best he might avenge his mother.

Who acts: notion, Tanuki, best · What happens: begin, be, let, see, turn over, wonder · To what, where: length, old tanuki, nothing, plans, own mind, mother · 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 (notion, Tanuki, best), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 began	obl
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 notion	det
4	notion	notion	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 began	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 truth	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 truth	det
7	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 notion	nmod
8	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 dawn	mark
10	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 began	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 dawn	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 careful	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 careful	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 careful	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 careful	cop
17	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 see	advcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 let	mark
19	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 see	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 tanuki	det
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 tanuki	amod
22	tanuki	tanuki	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 let	obj
23	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 began	parataxis
24	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	23 see	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 turned	punct
26	though	though	SCONJ	_	32 turned	mark
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 mind	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 mind	nmod:poss
29	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 mind	amod
30	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 turned	obl
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 turned	nsubj
32	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 see	conj
33	over	over	ADP	_	32 turned	compound:prt
34	plans	plan	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 turned	obj
35	from	from	ADP	_	36 morning	case
36	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 turned	obl
37	till	till	ADP	_	38 night	case
38	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 turned	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 wondering	punct
40	wondering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 turned	advcl
41	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	42 best	advmod
42	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	45 avenge	nsubj
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 avenge	nsubj
44	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 avenge	aux
45	avenge	avenge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 wondering	ccomp
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 mother	nmod:poss
47	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 avenge	obj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	some notion of the truth		length	dawn		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is	past	Tanuki				careful property	tree rules
3	let	to-infinitive		the old tanuki				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tanuki=Theme
4	see	present		nothing				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
5	turn over	past	Tanuki	plans	Tanuki's own mind	morning; night		vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent plan=Theme
6	wonder speech: ask	gerund	Tanuki not said here					vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	avenge	might	best	Tanuki's mother				tree rules
8	mind		Tanuki					nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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