The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 28
But when the Tanuki saw that he had eaten his fill and would be thinking about his prisoner, he hastily shook off the clothes behind a door and took his own shape.
Who acts: Tanuki, peasant · What happens: see, eat, think, shake off, take · To what, where: fill, clothes, door, own shape · 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 (Tanuki, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 shook | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 saw | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Tanuki | det |
| 4 | Tanuki | Tanuki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 shook | advcl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 eaten | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 eaten | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 eaten | aux |
| 9 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 saw | ccomp |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 fill | nmod:poss |
| 11 | fill | fill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eaten | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 thinking | cc |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 thinking | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 thinking | aux |
| 15 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 eaten | conj |
| 16 | about | about | ADP | _ | 18 prisoner | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 prisoner | nmod:poss |
| 18 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 thinking | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 shook | nsubj |
| 21 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 22 shook | advmod |
| 22 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | off | off | ADP | _ | 25 clothes | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 clothes | det |
| 25 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 22 shook | obl |
| 26 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 28 door | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 door | det |
| 28 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 shook | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 took | cc |
| 30 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 shook | conj |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 shape | nmod:poss |
| 32 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 shape | amod |
| 33 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 took | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the Tanuki | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | eat | past · perfect | peasant | peasant's fill | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fill=Patient | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | would · progressive | peasant not said here | about peasant's prisoner | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about prisoner=Topic | ||||
| 4 | shake off | past | peasant | the clothes | a door | hastily property | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme behind door=Trajectory | ||
| 5 | take | past | peasant not said here | peasant's own shape | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme |
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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