The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 47

But the little tanaki stuck to his point, and at last the father proposed they should have a wager.

Who acts: little tanaki, spells, Tanuki · What happens: stick, propose, have, point · To what, where: little tanaki, wager

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 tanaki, spells, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	15 proposed	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tanaki	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tanaki	amod
4	tanaki	tanaki	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 proposed	nsubj
5	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 tanaki	acl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 point	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 point	nmod:poss
8	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stuck	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 proposed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 proposed	cc
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 last	case
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 proposed	nsubj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 father	det
14	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 last	nsubj
15	proposed	propose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 have	nsubj
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 have	aux
18	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 proposed	ccomp
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 wager	det
20	wager	wager	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 proposed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stick	participle		the little tanaki not said here	to Tanuki's point	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to point=Co-Patient
2	propose	past	the little tanaki			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	should	spells = spell	a wager		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wager=Patient
4	point		Tanuki			nom point «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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