The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 26
Quick as lightning the Tanuki not only put on the woman’s clothes, but, as he was a magician, assumed her form as well.
Who acts: lightning, peasant, Tanuki · What happens: not put, be, assume, form · To what, where: Tanuki, clothes, form
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 (lightning, peasant, 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 | Quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lightning | case |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 1 Quick | fixed |
| 3 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 assumed | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Tanuki | det |
| 5 | Tanuki | Tanuki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 put | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 put | advmod |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 put | advmod |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 lightning | acl:relcl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 clothes | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 woman | det |
| 11 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 woman | case |
| 13 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 8 put | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 magician | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 magician | cc |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 magician | punct |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 magician | case |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 magician | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 magician | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 magician | det |
| 21 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lightning | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lightning | punct |
| 23 | assumed | assume | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 form | nmod:poss |
| 25 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 assumed | obj |
| 26 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 23 assumed | advmod |
| 27 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 as | fixed |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 assumed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not put | participle · passive | lightning but a magician not said here | the Tanuki | the woman's clothes | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on clothes=Destination | |||
| 2 | is | past | peasant | as a magician | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | assume | past | Tanuki's form | quick lightning but a magician | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme | ||||
| 4 | form | Tanuki | nom form «communication 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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