--- title: No sooner did it touch him than the Tanuki leapt yelling into the ai… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: No sooner did it touch him than the Tanuki leapt yelling into the air, and the hare laughed, and ran to tell his friend the peasant what a trick he had played on their enemy. Who acts: ointment, Tanuki, hare. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ointment, Tanuki, hare), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg5615:4:54 # text = No sooner did it touch him than the Tanuki leapt yelling into the air, and the hare laughed, and ran to tell his friend the peasant what a trick he had played on their enemy. 1 No no DET DT PronType=Neg 2 det _ _ 2 sooner soon ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 5 advmod _ _ 3 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 touch touch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 than than SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Tanuki Tanuki PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 leapt leapt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 11 yelling yell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 xcomp _ _ 12 into into ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 hare hare NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 peasant peasant NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 29 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 24 ccomp _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 trick trick NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 played play VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 31 acl:relcl _ _ 35 on on ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 enemy enemy NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **touch** | past · do-support | ointment | hare | | | | soon *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme | | 2 | **leapt** | past | the Tanuki | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **yell** *speech: express* | gerund | the Tanuki *not said here* | | | the air | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into air=Recipient | | 4 | **laugh** | past | the hare | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **run** | past | the hare *not said here* | | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | the hare *not said here* | the peasant | hare's friend | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient peasant=Topic | | 7 | **play** | past · perfect | hare | a trick *not said here* | | friends's enemy | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/4/53/) - next →: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/4/55/) - ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/4/)