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title: Quick as lightning the Tanuki not only put on the woman’s clothes, b… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Quick as lightning the Tanuki not only put on the woman’s clothes, but, as he was a magician, assumed her form as well. Who acts: lightning, peasant, Tanuki. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 26

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Quick as lightning the Tanuki not only put on the woman’s clothes, but, as he was a magician, assumed her form as well.

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**Who acts:** lightning, peasant, Tanuki · **What happens:** not put, be, assume, form · **To what, where:** Tanuki, clothes, form

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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 (lightning, peasant, 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:pg5615:4:26
# text = Quick as lightning the Tanuki not only put on the woman’s clothes, but, as he was a magician, assumed her form as well.
1	Quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	case	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Tanuki	Tanuki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’s	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
23	assumed	assume	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	23	advmod	_	_
27	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **put** | participle · passive | lightning but a magician *not said here* | the Tanuki |  | the woman's clothes |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on clothes=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | past | peasant |  |  |  |  | as a magician | tree rules |
| 3 | **assume** | past |  | Tanuki's form |  |  |  | quick lightning but a magician | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme |
| 4 | **form** |  | Tanuki |  |  |  |  |  | nom form «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 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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