The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 45

One morning, as the little tanuki was sitting with his father, he remembered, with a start, that his mother had taught him all she knew of magic, and that he could work spells as well as his father, or perhaps better.

Who acts: little tanuki, Tanuki, mother · What happens: sit, remember, teach, know, work · To what, where: One morning, mother, Tanuki, spells

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 (little tanuki, Tanuki, mother), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 morning	nummod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 remembered	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sitting	punct
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 sitting	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tanuki	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tanuki	amod
7	tanuki	tanuki	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sitting	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sitting	aux
9	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 morning	acl
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 father	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 father	nmod:poss
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sitting	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 morning	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 remembered	nsubj
15	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 start	punct
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 start	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 start	det
19	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 remembered	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 taught	punct
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 taught	mark
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 mother	nmod:poss
23	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 taught	nsubj:pass
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 taught	aux
25	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 remembered	parataxis
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 taught	obj
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 taught	obj
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 knew	nsubj
29	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 all	acl:relcl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 magic	case
31	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 knew	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 work	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 work	cc
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 work	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 work	nsubj
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 work	aux
37	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 remembered	parataxis
38	spells	spell	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 work	obj
39	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	43 father	cc
40	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	39 as	fixed
41	as	as	ADP	_	39 as	fixed
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 father	nmod:poss
43	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 work	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 better	punct
45	or	or	CCONJ	_	47 better	cc
46	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	47 better	advmod
47	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	37 work	conj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 remembered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	the little tanuki	One morning not said here			with Tanuki's father	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location morning=Theme
2	remember	past	Tanuki			morning	with a start	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	teach speech: other	past · perfect · passive		Tanuki's mother	Tanuki			tree rules
4	know	past	mother				of magic	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of magic=Stimulus
5	work	could	Tanuki	spells				vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent spell=Material

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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