The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 82
In the evening, when she came back, the panther said, ‘Jackal, bring out my little ones!’
Who acts: Panther · What happens: come back, say, bring out · To what, where: Jackal, 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 (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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 evening | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 evening | det |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 evening | punct |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 came | advmod |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 came | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 panther | det |
| 11 | panther | panther | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Jackal | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 Jackal | punct |
| 15 | Jackal | jackal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bring | punct |
| 17 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 bring | compound:prt |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 ones | nmod:poss |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 ones | amod |
| 21 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 bring | obj |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 17 bring | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | Panther | evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the panther | Jackal | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | bring out | infinitive | my little ones | 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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