The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 8

So for many days the man lay hidden, waiting for the Tanuki to come by, and when one morning he marched up the road thinking of nothing but the dinner he was going to steal, the peasant threw himself upon him and bound his four legs tightly, so that he could not move.

Who acts: man, peasant · What happens: lie, hide, wait, come by, march up, think · To what, where: road, peasant, four legs

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 (man, peasant), 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	So	so	ADV	_	7 lay	advmod
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 days	case
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 days	amod
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lay	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lay	nsubj
7	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 lay	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 waiting	punct
10	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 lay	advcl
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 Tanuki	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Tanuki	det
13	Tanuki	Tanuki	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 waiting	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 come	mark
15	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 waiting	advcl
16	by	by	ADP	_	15 come	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 marched	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 marched	cc
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 marched	advmod
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 morning	nummod
21	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 marched	obl:unmarked
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 marched	nsubj
23	marched	march	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lay	conj
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 marched	compound:prt
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 road	det
26	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 marched	obj
27	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 marched	xcomp
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 nothing	case
29	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	27 thinking	obl
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 dinner	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 dinner	det
32	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 nothing	conj
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 going	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 going	aux
35	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 nothing	conj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 steal	mark
37	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 going	xcomp
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 threw	punct
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 peasant	det
40	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 threw	nsubj
41	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lay	parataxis
42	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	41 threw	obj
43	upon	upon	ADP	_	44 him	case
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 threw	obl
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 bound	cc
46	bound	bind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 threw	conj
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 legs	nmod:poss
48	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	49 legs	nummod
49	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 bound	obj
50	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	46 bound	advmod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 move	punct
52	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	57 move	mark
53	that	that	SCONJ	_	52 so	fixed
54	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 move	nsubj
55	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 move	aux
56	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	57 move	advmod
57	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 bound	conj
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	the man		day		tree rules
2	hide	participle	the man not said here				vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	wait	gerund	the man not said here			for the Tanuki	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come by	to-infinitive	the man not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	march up	past	peasant	the road	morning		tree rules
6	think speech: other	gerund	peasant not said here			of nothing	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	go	past · progressive	peasant				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	steal	to-infinitive	peasant not said here				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	throw	past	the peasant	peasant		upon friendship	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme upon he=Destination
10	bind	past	the peasant not said here	peasant's four legs		tightly property	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
11	not move	could	peasant				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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