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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 47

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This delighted the greedy Tanuki, who said that they would be no weight for him, so they collected the large branches, which the hare bound tightly on his back.

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**Who acts:** This, greedy Tanuki, ways, large branches · **What happens:** delight, say, be, collect, hare, bind · **To what, where:** greedy Tanuki, weight, large branches, hare, back · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (This, greedy Tanuki, ways, large branches), 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:pg5615:4:47
# text = This delighted the greedy Tanuki, who said that they would be no weight for him, so they collected the large branches, which the hare bound tightly on his back.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	delighted	delight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Tanuki	Tanuki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl:relcl	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	collected	collect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
28	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
29	tightly	tightly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **delight** | past | This | the greedy Tanuki |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus tanuki=Experiencer |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the greedy Tanuki |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | would | ways *= way* | no weight |  |  |  | for hare | tree rules |
| 4 | **collect** | past | ways *= way* | the large branches |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Theme |
| 5 | **hare** |  | the large branches |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **bind** | participle |  | the hare *not said here* |  | hare's back |  | tightly *property* | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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