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description: The tanuki’s consent was obtained, a booth was built, and a notice was hung up outside it inviting the people to come and witness the most wonderful transformation that ever was seen. Who acts: notice, tanuki. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 39, wi
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 15

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The tanuki’s consent was obtained, a booth was built, and a notice was hung up outside it inviting the people to come and witness the most wonderful transformation that ever was seen.

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**Who acts:** notice, tanuki · **What happens:** obtain, build, hang up, invite, come, see · **To what, where:** consent, booth, notice, people, wonderful transformation

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (notice, tanuki), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg2435:39:15
# text = The tanuki’s consent was obtained, a booth was built, and a notice was hung up outside it inviting the people to come and witness the most wonderful transformation that ever was seen.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tanuki	tanuki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	consent	consent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	obtained	obtain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	booth	booth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	notice	notice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	inviting	invite	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	witness	witness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	30	advmod	_	_
30	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	transformation	transformation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
33	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	35	advmod	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **obtain** | past · passive |  | the tanuki's consent |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **build** | past · passive |  | a booth |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 3 | **hang up** | past · passive |  | a notice |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **invite** | gerund | notice |  | the people |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient |
| 5 | **come** | to-infinitive | notice *not said here* | the wonderful transformation |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **see** | past · passive |  | the wonderful transformation |  |  | ever |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 7 | **consent** |  | the tanuki |  |  |  |  |  | nom consent «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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.

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