The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 73

‘Then you had better be quick about it,’ said the jackal, holding tight on to the heron until he had pointed out the panther’s den.

Who acts: you, heron · What happens: have, be, say, hold, point out · To what, where: jackal, den · 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, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 had	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 quick	advmod
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 quick	cop
7	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 had	xcomp
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 quick	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 jackal	det
14	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 holding	punct
16	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 said	advcl
17	tight	tight	ADV	_	18 on	advmod
18	on	on	ADV	_	16 holding	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 heron	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 heron	det
21	heron	heron	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 holding	obl
22	until	until	SCONJ	_	25 pointed	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 pointed	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 pointed	aux
25	pointed	point	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 holding	advcl
26	out	out	ADP	_	25 pointed	compound:prt
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 panther	det
28	panther	panther	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 den	nmod:poss
29	’s	's	PART	_	28 panther	case
30	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 pointed	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	you		then		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	infinitive	you not said here			about place; quick property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past		the jackal			tree rules
4	hold	gerund				to the heron	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	point out	past · perfect	heron	the panther's den			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent den=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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