The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 6

Now this strange friendship was observed by the Tanuki, a wicked, quarrelsome beast, who hated the peasant, and was never tired of doing him an ill turn.

Who acts: Tanuki, wicked quarrelsome beast · What happens: observe, hate, not be, do · To what, where: strange friendship, peasant

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, wicked quarrelsome beast), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 observed	advmod
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 friendship	det
3	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 friendship	amod
4	friendship	friendship	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 observed	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 observed	aux:pass
6	observed	observe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 Tanuki	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Tanuki	det
9	Tanuki	Tanuki	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 observed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 beast	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 beast	det
12	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 beast	amod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wicked	punct
14	quarrelsome	quarrelsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 beast	amod
15	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Tanuki	appos
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 hated	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 hated	nsubj
18	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 beast	acl:relcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 peasant	det
20	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hated	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 tired	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 tired	cc
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 tired	cop
24	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	25 tired	advmod
25	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 observed	parataxis
26	of	of	SCONJ	_	27 doing	mark
27	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 tired	advcl
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 doing	obj
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 turn	det
30	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 turn	amod
31	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 doing	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 observed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	observe	past · passive	the Tanuki	this strange friendship	now		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent subject=Topic
2	hate	past	a wicked quarrelsome beast	the peasant			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer peasant=Stimulus
3	not is	past				tired property	tree rules
4	do	gerund		peasant			tree rules

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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