The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 43
The Tanuki, who had no cause to suspect the hare, was greatly pleased to see him, for he noticed the hatchet at once, and began to lay plots how to get hold of it.
Who acts: Tanuki, knave · What happens: have, suspect, be, see, notice, begin · To what, where: cause, hare, hatchet, plots, hold
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, knave), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Tanuki | det |
| 2 | Tanuki | Tanuki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 pleased | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Tanuki | acl:relcl |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 cause | det |
| 7 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 suspect | mark |
| 9 | suspect | suspect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 cause | acl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hare | det |
| 11 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 suspect | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tanuki | punct |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 pleased | cop |
| 14 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 15 pleased | advmod |
| 15 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 see | mark |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 pleased | xcomp |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 see | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 noticed | punct |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 noticed | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 noticed | nsubj |
| 22 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 pleased | parataxis |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 hatchet | det |
| 24 | hatchet | hatchet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 noticed | obj |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 once | case |
| 26 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 22 noticed | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 began | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 began | cc |
| 29 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 noticed | conj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 lay | mark |
| 31 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 began | xcomp |
| 32 | plots | plot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 lay | obj |
| 33 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 35 get | advmod |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 get | mark |
| 35 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 lay | advcl |
| 36 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 get | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 it | case |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 hold | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Tanuki | no cause | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Patient | ||||
| 2 | suspect | to-infinitive | the Tanuki not said here | the hare | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent hare=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the Tanuki | greatly, pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | the Tanuki not said here | hare | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | notice | past | knave | the hatchet | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer hatchet=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | begin | past | knave not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | lay | to-infinitive | knave not said here | plots | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plot=Result | ||||
| 8 | get | to-infinitive | knave not said here | hold of hold | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus | ||||
| 9 | hold | hold | nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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