The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 50

The Tanuki, who was busy with something else, observed nothing, and only called out to ask what was the meaning of the crackling that he heard.

Who acts: Tanuki, hare · What happens: be, observe, call out, ask, hear · To what, where: nothing, meaning, crackling · 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, hare), 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	6 busy	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 busy	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 busy	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 busy	cop
6	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 something	case
8	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 busy	obl
9	else	else	ADV	_	8 something	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 observed	punct
11	observed	observe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 busy	conj
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 observed	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 called	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 called	cc
15	only	only	ADV	_	16 called	advmod
16	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 busy	conj
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 called	compound:prt
18	to	to	PART	_	19 ask	mark
19	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 called	advcl
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 meaning	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 meaning	cop
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 meaning	det
23	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ask	ccomp
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 crackling	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 crackling	det
26	crackling	crackling	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 meaning	nmod
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 heard	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 heard	nsubj
29	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 crackling	acl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 busy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Tanuki		with something; busy property	tree rules
2	observe	participle	the Tanuki not said here	nothing		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
3	call out speech: assert	participle	the Tanuki not said here			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	the Tanuki not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past		the meaning	of the crackling	tree rules
6	hear	past	hare	the crackling not said here		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer crackling=Stimulus

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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