The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 46

“I am as good a wizard as you,” he said suddenly, and a cold chill ran through the tanuki as he heard him, though he laughed, and pretended to think it a joke.

Who acts: Tanuki, cold chill, joke · What happens: be, say, run, hear, laugh, pretend · To what, where: tanuki, chill, plan · 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 (Tanuki, cold chill, joke), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 good	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 good	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 good	cop
4	as	as	ADP	_	5 good	case
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 said	ccomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wizard	det
7	wizard	wizard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 good	conj
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 you	case
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 wizard	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 good	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 good	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	13 said	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 ran	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 ran	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 chill	det
18	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 chill	amod
19	chill	chill	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ran	nsubj
20	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	conj
21	through	through	ADP	_	23 tanuki	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 tanuki	det
23	tanuki	tanuki	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ran	obl
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 heard	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 heard	nsubj
26	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 ran	advcl
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 heard	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 laughed	punct
29	though	though	SCONJ	_	31 laughed	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 laughed	nsubj
31	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 heard	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 pretended	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 pretended	cc
34	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 laughed	conj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 think	mark
36	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 pretended	xcomp
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 think	obj
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 joke	det
39	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 think	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Tanuki			good property	tree rules
2	be in a quote		Tanuki not said here			as you	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	Tanuki			suddenly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	run	past	a cold chill		the tanuki		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through tanuki=Trajectory
5	hear	past	Tanuki	chill			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
6	laugh	past	Tanuki				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	pretend	past	Tanuki not said here				tree rules
8	think speech: other	to-infinitive	a joke	plan			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

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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