The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 24

In a few minutes more she was pounded as fine as the rice; and not content with that, the Tanuki placed a pot on the hearth and made ready to cook the peasant a dinner from the flesh of his own wife!

Who acts: Tanuki · What happens: pound, place, make, cook · To what, where: Tanuki, pot, hearth, dinner, peasant, flesh

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 (Tanuki), 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	_	4 minutes	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 minutes	det
3	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 minutes	amod
4	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 pounded	obl
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 pounded	advmod
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 pounded	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 pounded	aux:pass
8	pounded	pound	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	as	as	ADV	_	10 fine	advmod
10	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pounded	xcomp
11	as	as	ADP	_	13 rice	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rice	det
13	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fine	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 content	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 content	cc
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 content	advmod
17	content	content	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pounded	parataxis
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 that	case
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 content	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 placed	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Tanuki	det
22	Tanuki	Tanuki	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 placed	nsubj
23	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 content	parataxis
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 pot	det
25	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 placed	obj
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 hearth	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 hearth	det
28	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 placed	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 made	cc
30	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 placed	conj
31	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 made	xcomp
32	to	to	PART	_	33 cook	mark
33	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 made	xcomp
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 peasant	det
35	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 cook	obj
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 dinner	det
37	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 cook	obj
38	from	from	ADP	_	40 flesh	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 flesh	det
40	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 cook	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	44 wife	case
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 wife	nmod:poss
43	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 wife	amod
44	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 flesh	nmod
45	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 pounded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pound	past · passive		Tanuki			minute	fine property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product
2	place	past	the Tanuki	a pot		the hearth			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent pot=Theme on hearth=Destination
3	make	past	the Tanuki not said here					ready property	tree rules
4	cook	to-infinitive	the Tanuki not said here	a dinner	the peasant	the flesh of peasant's own wife			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: agent=Agent peasant=Beneficiary dinner=Product from flesh=Material

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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