The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 85
That night, when the panther returned from hunting, she said to him as usual, ‘Jackal, bring out my little ones.’
Who acts: panther · What happens: return, say, bring out · To what, where: hunting, Jackal, rest, 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 night | det |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 returned | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 returned | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 panther | det |
| 6 | panther | panther | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 returned | nsubj |
| 7 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 night | conj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 hunting | case |
| 9 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 returned | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 night | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | obl |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 usual | case |
| 16 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 said | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Jackal | punct |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 Jackal | punct |
| 19 | Jackal | jackal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bring | punct |
| 21 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 bring | compound:prt |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 ones | nmod:poss |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 ones | amod |
| 25 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 bring | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 bring | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the panther | hunting | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hunting=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Panther | Jackal | rest | night | as usual | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer 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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