The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 60
They both looked exactly alike, and the Tanuki only saw that one was bigger than the other, and would hold more fish, so he sprang into the large one, while the hare climbed into the one which was made of wood.
Who acts: boats, Tanuki, one, hare · What happens: look, see, be, hold, spring, climb · To what, where: more fish, one
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 (boats, Tanuki, one, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | both | both | ADV | _ | 3 looked | advmod |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 5 alike | advmod |
| 5 | alike | alike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 looked | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 saw | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 saw | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Tanuki | det |
| 9 | Tanuki | Tanuki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 saw | advmod |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | parataxis |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 bigger | mark |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 bigger | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 bigger | cop |
| 15 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 saw | xcomp |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 other | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 other | det |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bigger | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 hold | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 hold | cc |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 hold | aux |
| 22 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 saw | conj |
| 23 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 fish | amod |
| 24 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 hold | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 sprang | punct |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 sprang | advmod |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 sprang | nsubj |
| 28 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | parataxis |
| 29 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 one | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 one | det |
| 31 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 one | amod |
| 32 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sprang | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 climbed | punct |
| 34 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 37 climbed | mark |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 hare | det |
| 36 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 climbed | nsubj |
| 37 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 sprang | conj |
| 38 | into | into | ADP | _ | 40 one | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 one | det |
| 40 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 climbed | obl |
| 41 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 made | nsubj:pass |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 made | aux:pass |
| 43 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 one | acl:relcl |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 wood | case |
| 45 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 made | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | boats = boat | alike, both property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | see | past | the Tanuki | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | one | than the other; big property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hold | would | the Tanuki not said here | more fish | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme | ||||
| 5 | spring | past | hare | into the large one | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into one=Destination | ||||
| 6 | climb | past | the hare | into the one | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into one=Destination | ||||
| 7 | make | past · passive | the one | of wood | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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