The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 23
In one moment the Tanuki had seized her, stripped off all her clothes, and popped her in the mortar.
What happens: seize, strip off, pop · To what, where: Tanuki, clothes, woman, mortar
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 moment | nummod |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seized | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Tanuki | det |
| 5 | Tanuki | Tanuki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 seized | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 seized | aux |
| 7 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 seized | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stripped | punct |
| 10 | stripped | strip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 seized | conj |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 clothes | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 clothes | det:predet |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 10 stripped | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 popped | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 popped | cc |
| 17 | popped | pop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 seized | conj |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 popped | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 mortar | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 mortar | det |
| 21 | mortar | mortar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 popped | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past · perfect · passive | the Tanuki | moment | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | strip off | participle | woman's clothes | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient | |||||
| 3 | pop | past | woman | the mortar | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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 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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