The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 59
The Tanuki was still feeling angry with the hare about the trick he had played him, but he was weak and very hungry, so he gladly accepted the proposal, and accompanied the hare to the bank of the river, where the two boats were moored, rocked by the waves.
Who acts: Tanuki, hare · What happens: feel, play, be, accept, accompany, moor · To what, where: trick, proposal, hare, bank, two boats
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 | 5 feeling | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 feeling | aux |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 feeling | advmod |
| 5 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 feeling | xcomp |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 hare | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hare | det |
| 9 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 angry | obl |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 trick | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 trick | det |
| 12 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hare | nmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 played | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 played | aux |
| 15 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 trick | acl:relcl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 played | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 weak | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 weak | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 weak | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 weak | cop |
| 21 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 feeling | parataxis |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 hungry | cc |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 hungry | advmod |
| 24 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 weak | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 accepted | punct |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 accepted | advmod |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 accepted | nsubj |
| 28 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 29 accepted | advmod |
| 29 | accepted | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 feeling | parataxis |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 proposal | det |
| 31 | proposal | proposal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 accepted | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 accompanied | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 accompanied | cc |
| 34 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 accepted | conj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 hare | det |
| 36 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 accompanied | obj |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 bank | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 bank | det |
| 39 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 accompanied | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 river | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 river | det |
| 42 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 bank | nmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 moored | punct |
| 44 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 49 moored | advmod |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 boats | det |
| 46 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 47 boats | nummod |
| 47 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 moored | nsubj |
| 48 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 moored | aux:pass |
| 49 | moored | moor | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 river | acl:relcl |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 rocked | punct |
| 51 | rocked | rock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 49 moored | conj |
| 52 | by | by | ADP | _ | 54 waves | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 waves | det |
| 54 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 rocked | obl:agent |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 feeling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past · progressive | the Tanuki | still | angry property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | play | past · perfect | hare | trick | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | hare | weak property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | hare not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | accept | past | hare | the proposal | gladly property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proposal=Theme | |||
| 6 | accompany | past | hare not said here | the hare | the bank of the river | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hare=Theme to bank=Destination | |||
| 7 | moor | past · passive | the two boats | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V ADVP»: subject=Destination | |||||
| 8 | rock | participle | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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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