The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 50
The little tanuki agreed, and went down the road which his father had pointed out.
Who acts: little tanuki · What happens: agree, go down, point out · To what, where: little tanuki, road
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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tanuki | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tanuki | amod |
| 3 | tanuki | tanuki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | nsubj |
| 4 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 tanuki | acl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 went | cc |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 road | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 road | det |
| 10 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 pointed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 father | nmod:poss |
| 13 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pointed | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 pointed | aux |
| 15 | pointed | point | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 road | acl:relcl |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 pointed | compound:prt |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | participle | the little tanuki not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go down | past | the little tanuki | the road | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient road=Extent | ||||
| 3 | point out | past · perfect · passive | the road | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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