The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 79
By-and-bye the panther returned from hunting, and said to him, ‘Jackal, bring out my little ones for their supper.’
Who acts: Jackal · What happens: return, say, bring out · To what, where: hunting, plenty, little ones · 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), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 7 panther | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 panther | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 panther | cc |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 and | punct |
| 5 | bye | bye | INTJ | _ | 7 panther | discourse |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 panther | det |
| 7 | panther | panther | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 returned | obl |
| 8 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 hunting | case |
| 10 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 returned | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 returned | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Jackal | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 Jackal | punct |
| 18 | Jackal | Jackal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 bring | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Jackal | punct |
| 20 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 bring | compound:prt |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 ones | nmod:poss |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 ones | amod |
| 24 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 bring | obj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 supper | case |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 supper | nmod:poss |
| 27 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bring | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 returned | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | hunting | by the panther | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hunting=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | plenty | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | bring out | infinitive | Jackal | my little ones | for Jackal's supper | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent one=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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