The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 72

‘But if you will let me go,’ entreated the heron, ‘I will show you the place where the panther has her lair.’

Who acts: you, me, I, panther · What happens: let, go, entreat, show, have · To what, where: me, heron, place, you, lair

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, me, I, panther), 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	_	6 let	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 let	cc
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 let	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 let	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 let	aux
6	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 entreated	ccomp
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 let	obj
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct
11	entreated	entreat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 heron	det
13	heron	heron	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 entreated	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 show	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 show	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 show	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 show	aux
18	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 entreated	advcl
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 show	iobj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 place	det
21	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 show	obj
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	25 has	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 panther	det
24	panther	panther	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 has	nsubj
25	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 place	acl:relcl
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 lair	nmod:poss
27	lair	lair	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 has	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 entreated	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 entreated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	let a condition, not said to happen	future	you	me		tree rules
2	go	infinitive	me not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	entreat	past		the heron		vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent heron=Recipient clause=Topic
4	show	future	I	the place	you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient place=Topic
5	have	present	the panther	Panther's lair		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lair=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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