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title: But the Japanese tales will probably be new to the young student; th… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the Japanese tales will probably be new to the young student; the Tanuki is a creature whose acquaintance he may not have made before. Who acts: Japanese tales, Tanuki, student, creature. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, with its dependency tree an
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 9

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But the Japanese tales will probably be new to the young student; the Tanuki is a creature whose acquaintance he may not have made before.

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**Who acts:** Japanese tales, Tanuki, student, creature · **What happens:** be, not make, acquaint · **To what, where:** creature

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Japanese tales, Tanuki, student, creature), 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:pg5615:1:9
# text = But the Japanese tales will probably be new to the young student; the Tanuki is a creature whose acquaintance he may not have made before.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
8	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	student	student	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Tanuki	Tanuki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
19	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	acquaintance	acquaintance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
22	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
24	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux	_	_
25	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	parataxis	_	_
26	before	before	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | future | the Japanese tales |  |  |  |  | to the young student; new, probably *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the Tanuki | a creature |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **make** | may · perfect | student |  |  |  |  | before *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **acquaint** |  | a creature |  |  |  |  |  | nom acquaintance «cognition 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 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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