The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 17
Then Jimmu took it back, and setting it on the platform, commanded it to become a tanuki.
Who acts: Jimmu · What happens: take back, set, command, become · To what, where: kettle, platform, tanuki · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Jimmu), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | Jimmu | Jimmu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 setting | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 setting | cc |
| 8 | setting | set | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 took | advcl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 setting | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 platform | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 platform | det |
| 12 | platform | platform | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 setting | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 commanded | punct |
| 14 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 commanded | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 become | mark |
| 17 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 commanded | advcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 tanuki | det |
| 19 | tanuki | tanuki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 become | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take back | past | Jimmu | kettle | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | set | gerund | Jimmu not said here | kettle | the platform | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on platform=Destination | |||
| 3 | command | past | Jimmu not said here | kettle | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | become | to-infinitive | Jimmu not said here | a tanuki | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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