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title: The Tanuki was still feeling angry with the hare about the trick he… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Tanuki was still feeling angry with the hare about the trick he had played him, but he was weak and very hungry, so he gladly accepted the proposal, and accompanied the hare to the bank of the river, where the two boats were moored, rocked by the waves. Who acts: Tanuki, hare. A sentence of «The
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 59

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The Tanuki was still feeling angry with the hare about the trick he had played him, but he was weak and very hungry, so he gladly accepted the proposal, and accompanied the hare to the bank of the river, where the two boats were moored, rocked by the waves.

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**Who acts:** Tanuki, hare · **What happens:** feel, play, be, accept, accompany, moor · **To what, where:** trick, proposal, hare, bank, two boats

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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, hare), 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:pg5615:4:59
# text = The Tanuki was still feeling angry with the hare about the trick he had played him, but he was weak and very hungry, so he gladly accepted the proposal, and accompanied the hare to the bank of the river, where the two boats were moored, rocked by the waves.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Tanuki	Tanuki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	still	still	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	about	about	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	played	play	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	very	very	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	gladly	gladly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	accepted	accept	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	proposal	proposal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	accompanied	accompany	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
44	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	49	advmod	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	47	nummod	_	_
47	boats	boat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nsubj	_	_
48	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	aux:pass	_	_
49	moored	moor	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
51	rocked	rock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	49	conj	_	_
52	by	by	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past · progressive | the Tanuki |  |  |  | still | angry *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **play** | past · perfect | hare | trick |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | hare |  |  |  |  | weak *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | hare *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **accept** | past | hare | the proposal |  |  |  | gladly *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proposal=Theme |
| 6 | **accompany** | past | hare *not said here* | the hare |  | the bank of the river |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hare=Theme to bank=Destination |
| 7 | **moor** | past · passive |  | the two boats |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V ADVP»: subject=Destination |
| 8 | **rock** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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