The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 75

So the jackal came up to the panther, and asked politely, ‘Panther, would you like me to look after your children while you are out hunting?’

Who acts: jackal, you · What happens: come up, ask, like, look, hunt · To what, where: panther, 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, 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 jackal	det
3	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 panther	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 panther	det
8	panther	panther	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 asked	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 asked	cc
11	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	parataxis
12	politely	politely	ADV	_	11 asked	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Panther	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 Panther	punct
15	Panther	panther	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 asked	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 like	punct
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 like	aux
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 like	nsubj
19	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 asked	ccomp
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 like	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 look	mark
22	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 like	xcomp
23	after	after	ADP	_	25 children	case
24	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 children	nmod:poss
25	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 look	obl
26	while	while	SCONJ	_	30 hunting	mark
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 hunting	nsubj
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 hunting	aux
29	out	out	ADV	_	30 hunting	advmod
30	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 look	advcl
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	19 like	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come up	past	the jackal		the panther			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to panther=Initial_Location
2	ask speech: ask	past		Panther			politely property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	like	would	you	me				tree rules
4	look not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here			after your children		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	hunt	present · progressive	you				out property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=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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