The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 47

The jackal felt it was quite hopeless to get what he wanted, and asked, ‘Tell me, mother dove, how have you suddenly become so wise?’

Who acts: jackal, reach, heart, you · What happens: feel, be, get, want, ask, tell · To what, where: mother dove, me · 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 (jackal, reach, heart, you), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 jackal	det
2	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 felt	nsubj
3	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hopeless	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hopeless	cop
6	quite	quite	ADV	_	7 hopeless	advmod
7	hopeless	hopeless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 felt	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 get	mark
9	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 hopeless	advcl
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 get	obj
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wanted	nsubj
12	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 what	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 asked	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 asked	cc
15	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 felt	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Tell	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 Tell	punct
18	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 asked	ccomp
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 Tell	iobj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 dove	punct
21	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dove	compound
22	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Tell	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 become	punct
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	28 become	advmod
25	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 become	aux
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 become	nsubj
27	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	28 become	advmod
28	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 Tell	parataxis
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 wise	advmod
30	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 become	xcomp
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 Tell	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	feel	past	the jackal				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	past	reach			hopeless property	tree rules
3	get	to-infinitive	reach not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
4	want	past	heart				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	ask speech: ask	past	the jackal not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	tell speech: assert	infinitive		mother dove	me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
7	become	present	you			suddenly, wise property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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