The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 12
So saying, he hanged the Tanuki, head downwards, to a beam, and went out to gather wood for a fire.
Who acts: peasant · What happens: say, hange, go out, gather · To what, where: Tanuki, wood · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasant), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 hanged | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 saying | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hanged | nsubj |
| 5 | hanged | hange | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Tanuki | det |
| 7 | Tanuki | Tanuki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 hanged | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 head | punct |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Tanuki | appos |
| 10 | downwards | downwards | ADV | _ | 9 head | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 beam | punct |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 beam | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 beam | det |
| 14 | beam | beam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hanged | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 went | cc |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hanged | conj |
| 18 | out | out | ADV | _ | 17 went | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 gather | mark |
| 20 | gather | gather | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 went | xcomp |
| 21 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gather | obj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 fire | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 fire | det |
| 24 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gather | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hanged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | peasant not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hange | past | peasant | the Tanuki | to a beam | tree rules | |||
| 3 | go out | past | peasant not said here | out property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | gather | to-infinitive | peasant not said here | wood | for a fire | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent wood=Theme for fire=Beneficiary |
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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