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title: Now this strange friendship was observed by the Tanuki, a wicked, qu… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now this strange friendship was observed by the Tanuki, a wicked, quarrelsome beast, who hated the peasant, and was never tired of doing him an ill turn. Who acts: Tanuki, wicked quarrelsome beast. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, with its dependency t
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 6

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Now this strange friendship was observed by the Tanuki, a wicked, quarrelsome beast, who hated the peasant, and was never tired of doing him an ill turn.

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**Who acts:** Tanuki, wicked quarrelsome beast · **What happens:** observe, hate, not be, do · **To what, where:** strange friendship, peasant

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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, wicked quarrelsome beast), 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:pg5615:4:6
# text = Now this strange friendship was observed by the Tanuki, a wicked, quarrelsome beast, who hated the peasant, and was never tired of doing him an ill turn.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	observed	observe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Tanuki	Tanuki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	quarrelsome	quarrelsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	hated	hate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
26	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **observe** | past · passive | the Tanuki | this strange friendship |  |  | now |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |
| 2 | **hate** | past | a wicked quarrelsome beast | the peasant |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer peasant=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | gerund |  | peasant |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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