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title: In a few minutes more she was pounded as fine as the rice; and not c… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In a few minutes more she was pounded as fine as the rice; and not content with that, the Tanuki placed a pot on the hearth and made ready to cook the peasant a dinner from the flesh of his own wife! Who acts: Tanuki. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, w
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 24

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In a few minutes more she was pounded as fine as the rice; and not content with that, the Tanuki placed a pot on the hearth and made ready to cook the peasant a dinner from the flesh of his own wife!

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**Who acts:** Tanuki · **What happens:** pound, place, make, cook · **To what, where:** Tanuki, pot, hearth, dinner, peasant, flesh

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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 (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:pg5615:4:24
# text = In a few minutes more she was pounded as fine as the rice; and not content with that, the Tanuki placed a pot on the hearth and made ready to cook the peasant a dinner from the flesh of his own wife!
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
5	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	pounded	pound	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	as	as	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	content	content	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Tanuki	Tanuki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	hearth	hearth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
31	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	xcomp	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	cook	cook	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
38	from	from	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
43	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pound** | past · passive |  | Tanuki |  |  | minute | fine *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **place** | past | the Tanuki | a pot |  | the hearth |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent pot=Theme on hearth=Destination |
| 3 | **make** | past | the Tanuki *not said here* |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **cook** | to-infinitive | the Tanuki *not said here* | a dinner | the peasant | the flesh of peasant's own wife |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: agent=Agent peasant=Beneficiary dinner=Product from flesh=Material |

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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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