The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 9
But the Japanese tales will probably be new to the young student; the Tanuki is a creature whose acquaintance he may not have made before.
Who acts: Japanese tales, Tanuki, student, creature · What happens: be, not make, acquaint · To what, where: creature
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Japanese tales, Tanuki, student, creature), 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 | _ | 8 new | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tales | det |
| 3 | Japanese | Japanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tales | amod |
| 4 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 new | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 new | aux |
| 6 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 8 new | advmod |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 new | cop |
| 8 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 student | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 student | det |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 student | amod |
| 12 | student | student | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 new | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 creature | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Tanuki | det |
| 15 | Tanuki | Tanuki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 creature | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 creature | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 creature | det |
| 18 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 new | parataxis |
| 19 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 20 acquaintance | nmod:poss |
| 20 | acquaintance | acquaintance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 creature | obj |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 made | nsubj |
| 22 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 made | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 made | advmod |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 made | aux |
| 25 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 creature | parataxis |
| 26 | before | before | ADV | _ | 25 made | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 new | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | the Japanese tales | to the young student; new, probably property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the Tanuki | a creature | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not make | may · perfect | student | before property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | acquaint | a creature | nom acquaintance «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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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