The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 37

And the dove answered, ‘A jackal came by, and asked me to give him one of my little ones, and said that if I refused he would jump on my nest and eat us all up.’

Who acts: dove, jackal, I, heron · What happens: answer, come by, ask, give, say, refuse · To what, where: me, one, heron, nest, us · 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 (dove, jackal, I, heron), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 answered	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dove	det
3	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answered	nsubj
4	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct
7	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 jackal	det
8	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 answered	conj
10	by	by	ADP	_	9 came	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 asked	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 asked	cc
13	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	conj
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 asked	iobj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 give	mark
16	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 asked	xcomp
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 give	iobj
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 give	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 ones	case
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 ones	nmod:poss
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 ones	amod
22	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 one	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 said	cc
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 answered	conj
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 refused	mark
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 refused	mark
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 refused	nsubj
29	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 said	ccomp
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 jump	nsubj
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 jump	aux
32	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 refused	xcomp
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 nest	case
34	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 nest	nmod:poss
35	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 jump	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 eat	cc
37	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 jump	conj
38	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 eat	obj
39	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	38 us	nmod:unmarked
40	up	up	ADP	_	37 eat	compound:prt
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 answered	punct
42	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the dove				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come by	past	a jackal				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	past	a jackal not said here		me		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
4	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	a jackal not said here	one of my little ones	heron		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient one=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	the dove not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	refuse a condition, not said to happen	past	I				vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	not jump	would	heron			my nest	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on nest=Trajectory
8	eat up	infinitive	heron not said here	us			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient

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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