--- title: Directly the tanaki found he was alone, he crept cautiously through… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Directly the tanaki found he was alone, he crept cautiously through a chink of the window, thinking, as he did so, how lucky it was that he was not a fox, and was able to climb. Who acts: tanaki, window. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tanaki, window), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2435:32:34 # text = Directly the tanaki found he was alone, he crept cautiously through a chink of the window, thinking, as he did so, how lucky it was that he was not a fox, and was able to climb. 1 Directly directly ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 tanaki tanaki NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 alone alone ADV RB _ 4 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 crept creep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 11 cautiously cautiously ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 through through ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 chink chink NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 thinking think VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 as as SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 parataxis _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 27 advmod _ _ 27 lucky lucky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 conj _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 30 that that SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 32 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 33 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 38 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 39 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 climb climb VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | past | the tanaki | | | | | directly *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | past | tanaki | | | | | alone *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **creep** | past | tanaki | | | a chink of the window | | cautiously *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through chink=Trajectory | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | tanaki *not said here* | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **do** | past | tanaki | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **not** **is a** | past | window | a fox | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **is** | past | the tanaki *not said here* | | | | | able *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **climb** | to-infinitive | the tanaki *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/32/33/) - next →: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/32/35/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/32/)