The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 15
The tanuki’s consent was obtained, a booth was built, and a notice was hung up outside it inviting the people to come and witness the most wonderful transformation that ever was seen.
Who acts: notice, tanuki · What happens: obtain, build, hang up, invite, come, see · To what, where: consent, booth, notice, people, wonderful transformation
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (notice, 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 | 2 tanuki | det |
| 2 | tanuki | tanuki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 consent | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 tanuki | case |
| 4 | consent | consent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 obtained | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 obtained | aux:pass |
| 6 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 built | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 booth | det |
| 9 | booth | booth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 built | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 built | aux:pass |
| 11 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 obtained | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hung | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 hung | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 notice | det |
| 15 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hung | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 hung | aux:pass |
| 17 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 obtained | conj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 hung | compound:prt |
| 19 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 21 inviting | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 inviting | nsubj |
| 21 | inviting | invite | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 hung | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 people | det |
| 23 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 inviting | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 come | mark |
| 25 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 inviting | advcl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 witness | cc |
| 27 | witness | witness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 come | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 transformation | det |
| 29 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 30 wonderful | advmod |
| 30 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 transformation | amod |
| 31 | transformation | transformation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 come | obl |
| 32 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 seen | nsubj |
| 33 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 35 seen | advmod |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 seen | aux:pass |
| 35 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 transformation | acl:relcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 obtained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obtain | past · passive | the tanuki's consent | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | build | past · passive | a booth | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 3 | hang up | past · passive | a notice | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | invite | gerund | notice | the people | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | come | to-infinitive | notice not said here | the wonderful transformation | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | see | past · passive | the wonderful transformation | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | consent | the tanuki | nom consent «communication 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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