The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 2

But, to his surprise, no tanuki was there, nothing but the kettle he had found in the corner.

Who acts: tanuki, man · What happens: be, find, surprise · To what, where: surprise, corner

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 (tanuki, man), 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	_	18 found	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 surprise	punct
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 surprise	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 surprise	nmod:poss
5	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 found	nsubj:pass
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 there	punct
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 tanuki	det
8	tanuki	tanuki	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 there	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 there	cop
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 surprise	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 nothing	punct
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	18 found	nsubj:pass
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 kettle	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 kettle	det
15	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 nothing	conj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 found	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 found	aux
18	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 corner	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 corner	det
21	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 found	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	no tanuki			there property	tree rules
2	find	past · perfect · passive		man's surprise	the corner		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
3	surprise		man				nom surprise «feeling 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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