The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 100

‘Don’t you hear them?’ said the jackal; ‘they are in there,’ and slipped away while the panther was listening to the song of the children.

Who acts: you, Jackal, panther, children · What happens: not do, hear, say, be, slip away, listen · To what, where: Jackal · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Jackal, panther, children), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Do	punct
2	Do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 Do	advmod
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 hear	nsubj
5	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Do	advcl
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hear	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Do	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Do	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 jackal	det
11	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 there	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 there	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 there	nsubj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 there	cop
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 there	case
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 said	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 there	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 there	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 slipped	cc
21	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
22	away	away	ADV	_	21 slipped	advmod
23	while	while	SCONJ	_	27 listening	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 panther	det
25	panther	panther	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 listening	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 listening	aux
27	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 slipped	advcl
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 song	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 song	det
30	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 listening	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 children	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 children	det
33	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 song	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not do	infinitive				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hear	present	you	Jackal		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past		the jackal		tree rules
4	is	present	Jackal		there property	tree rules
5	slip away	past			away property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	listen	past · progressive	the panther		to the song of the children	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to song=Theme
7	sing		the children			nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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.

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