The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 76
‘I should be very much obliged,’ said the panther; ‘but be sure you take care of them.
Who acts: you, Jackal · What happens: oblige, say, be, take, care · To what, where: I, panther, care · 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, Jackal), 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 | _ | 7 obliged | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 obliged | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 obliged | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 obliged | aux:pass |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 7 obliged | advmod |
| 7 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 said | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 obliged | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 obliged | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 panther | det |
| 12 | panther | panther | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 sure | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 sure | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 sure | cc |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 sure | cop |
| 17 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | conj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 take | nsubj |
| 19 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 sure | ccomp |
| 20 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 take | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 care | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oblige | should · passive | I | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the panther | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | infinitive | sure property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | take | present | you | care of Jackal | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | ||||
| 5 | care | Jackal | nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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