The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 47

This delighted the greedy Tanuki, who said that they would be no weight for him, so they collected the large branches, which the hare bound tightly on his back.

Who acts: This, greedy Tanuki, ways, large branches · What happens: delight, say, be, collect, hare, bind · To what, where: greedy Tanuki, weight, large branches, hare, back · 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 (This, greedy Tanuki, ways, large branches), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 delighted	nsubj
2	delighted	delight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Tanuki	det
4	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Tanuki	amod
5	Tanuki	Tanuki	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 delighted	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Tanuki	advcl:relcl
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 weight	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 weight	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 weight	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 weight	cop
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 weight	det
14	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 weight	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 collected	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	20 collected	advmod
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 collected	nsubj
20	collected	collect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 delighted	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 branches	det
22	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 branches	amod
23	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 collected	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 hare	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 hare	nsubj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 hare	det
27	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 branches	appos
28	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 hare	acl
29	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	28 bound	advmod
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 back	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 back	nmod:poss
32	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bound	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 delighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	delight	past	This	the greedy Tanuki			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus tanuki=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past	the greedy Tanuki				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	would	ways = way	no weight		for hare	tree rules
4	collect	past	ways = way	the large branches			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Theme
5	hare		the large branches				tree rules
6	bind	participle		the hare not said here	hare's back	tightly property	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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